For the past few weeks we had a new addition to the Drug Advice Support (DAS) family, Rae Goedeman (in picture with Bradley Naidoo). She has really been so helpful and the advice and support she is giving is really changing many lives. Not only is the support to those in need but also to [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Welcome Mother DAS
Posted: 30th April 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, DAS, drug counselling, Mobile, Mom 2.0, reconstructed
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Drug Advice Suppport (DAS) – Server Expansion needed
Posted: 23rd April 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: Community in Tension (CiT), DAS, drug counselling, reconstructed, research
Well after managing the amount of conversations with our upgraded server the amount of requests for access to the service has increased over the past week. We are back to 250 conversations in an hour and our new server couldnt handle the amount of requests from the users (See images for Network Traffic and CPU [...]
Debt Breaker Mobile Site
Posted: 11th April 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: Debt Breaker, Mobile
We’ve just launched the first phase of Debt Breaker’s mobile website where we give consumers more information about the Debt Breaker debt counselling and management service. Debt Breaker is the first debt counselling service provider offering its users access to a mobi site with the opportunity to forward information via the mobile website interface too. [...]
1c Blogpost using MXit
Posted: 8th April 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: blogging, micro-blogging, Mobile, mxit
1c Blogpost using MXit. We have been exploring ways of how we could ensure that more people especially youth start blogging using their mobile phones and MXit. Using a chat bot and linking MXit with this blog we were able to blog for less than ZaR0.01 using this mobile chat platform. Not bad when [...]
Visit to CSIR. Today I am visiting the CSIR and will be meeting with the national coordinator from SAFIPA. Our discussions will focus on their involvement of the Athlone Living Lab which was started late last year. One of the new projects we hope to collaborate on is the ‘Community Gaming Education Centre’ (CGEC) in [...]