Over the past year we’ve seen an increase in interest from community members who are keen to be active on Social Networking sites. The Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) have been running Social Media programmes for adults over the past 2 years and this year they’ve experienced high volumes of participants in all their classes. The [...]
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Can you hear Google’s Voice?
Posted: 26th August 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, NewsTags: Google, Google Voice
Although we do not have the full functionality in South Africa, I managed to make my first call a few minutes ago. Definitely have to keep an eye out for this especially if Google plans to open up the API for Google Voice.
Windows 95 and the Microsoft Chronicles for 15 Years
Posted: 24th August 2010 by Marlon in News, businessTags: business, Microsoft
Today 15 years ago Microsoft launched the now infamous Windows 95 that changed Operating systems forever. Below is some videos that will take you back to those memorable days of Microsoft dominance.
Introducing RLabs Portugal
Posted: 17th August 2010 by Marlon in News, UncategorizedTags: Living Labs, Reconstructed Living Lab, RLabs, RLabs Portugal
The last few weeks I’ve been to Europe and what an interesting journey it has been. I was representing RLabs in Portugal at the Annual International School of Digital Transformation in Porto, Portugal and the week was an opportunity to learn from experts and meet incredible people from all over the world. However, the highlight [...]
JamiiX used for RLabs Drug Advice Support mobile counselling service
Posted: 10th July 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, Mobile, NewsTags: Drug Advice Support, JamiiX, Mobile Counselling, Reconstructed Living Lab, RLabs
Latest research by RLabs and the JamiiX Mobile Drug Counselling support system provided the following evaluation:
- In practical terms, the advisors have the capacity to help more people (n = 27) in a two-hour session than advisors at helplines (n = 4).20 The DAS system aggregates the conversations for the advisors, allowing them to [...]
10 Days of Sex, Drugs, MXit and ISLabs
Posted: 6th July 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, Mobile, News, UncategorizedTags: Drug Advice Support, Impact Direct, ISLabs, JamiiX, Mobile Counselling, Mobile Phones, mxit, RLabs
Today marked the 10th day since we’ve moved our Drug Advice Support (DAS) service over to JamiiX in collaboration with MXit. It was also an opportunity for JamiiX to test out its new Virtual Machines provided by our hosting partner ISLabs. The partnership with ISLabs really brought much better performance to the DAS service therefore [...]