Well after over a year of concept and development with the Drug Advice Support (DAS) system how far have we journeyed and what lies ahead of us. We celebrate a year of Advice Support, although it only went live August 2008, we’ve seen change and innovation through this process.
What began as a little experiment to [...]
Archive for February, 2009
What lies ahead for Drug Advice Support (DAS)?
Posted: 20th February 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, CAS, DAS, drug counselling, PAS, reconstructed
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How to be glamorous…
Posted: 20th February 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, DAS, drug counselling, media, Mobile, mxit, reconstructed
Well how do you become glamorous and appear in one of South Africa’s premier women magazines? Simple, use what you have and make a difference in the lives of others. The Drug Advice Support (DAS) appears in the Cosmopolitan Magazine March 2009 edition Page 60. The article is by Glynis Horning and extracts of it [...]
Drug Advice Support(DAS): Video Diary
Posted: 7th February 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, Community in Tension (CiT), DAS, drug counselling
The Promise of Living Labs
Posted: 7th February 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: Athlone Living Lab, COFISA, Community in Tension (CiT), Innovation
Using Living Labs as an approach to social innovation brings alot of promise and as one of the presenters showed at the COFISA Innovation Workshop the following should be considered:
- Skills Access- Reusability- Co-Innovation- Acceptance- Commercialisation- End-User Drive
In the context of the Athlone Living Lab the above promises are key to ensure the emergence of [...]
How much will a tweet cost you from your Mobile?
Posted: 5th February 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: micro-blogging, Mobile, research, twitter, Web 2.0
Well this post is a short test to see the cost of tweeting from a Mobile phone using some of the technologies I’ve got on my Nokia N81. The reason for this little experiment was specifically aimed at communities where cost is an issue or barrier to access or share information.
Cost for a single tweet [...]