Reconstructing Community Spaces "Athlone Living Lab"
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The above presentation was presented at the SAFIPA conference earlier this month at a Living Labs session.
Archive for June, 2009
Reconstructing Community Spaces: Athlone Living Lab
Posted: 24th June 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: Athlone Living Lab, Community in Tension (CiT), reconstructed, SAFIPA
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Twitter Moms
Posted: 20th June 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: micro-blogging, Mom 2.0, twitter
Our mothers part of the Mom 2.0 project being exposed to micro-blogging twitter and interesting to see how they engage with one another using this technology.
Unpacking the Servers
Posted: 20th June 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, Dell SA Development Fund
What an exciting day for us as we began unpacking (Above Wesley and Jason showing some love to the servers)the servers that will support the Advice Support work. The servers were sponsored by the DELL South African Development Fund and the impact it will have on our services reaching out to people in need [...]
Twitter School
Posted: 19th June 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: Community in Tension (CiT), micro-blogging, Mom 2.0, twitter
Today the Reconstructed Trainers had a session with the Mom 2.0 ladies teaching them mroe about the micro-blogging tool Twitter. The ladies really impressed me how they embraced the technology and by the end of the day they already had more than 500 tweets amongst them combined. Not bad for a first day of Twitter [...]
Drug Advice Support Featured in Business Times
Posted: 15th June 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, Community in Tension (CiT), DAS, drug counselling, media, reconstructed
With the Drug Advice Support (DAS) service growing and so much more people to reach we once again featured in a prominent South African News Paper The Business Times yesterday. The article titled “MXit put to some good use” written by Toby ShapShak can be read below:
MXIT, the cellphone instant messaging service best known for [...]
Good week for Debt Breaker
Posted: 12th June 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, Debt Breaker
This proved to be an exciting week in the Debt Breaker service. Firstly we are seeing more activity on the service serving more than 500 messages during it Wednesday session. The mobile debt counseling service also appeared in the Atlantic Sun Newspaper and The Cape Times (New Cell phone service provides debt counseling) on Wednesday [...]
A True Hero
Posted: 9th June 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, DAS, drug counselling, reconstructed
This evening as I was reflecting an exciting day presenting at the SAFIPA conference and being part of this year’s Mail & Guardian Young South Africans to take to lunch I realised who are our true heroes. Its those who are in our communities who silently are making a difference daily in the lives of [...]
SAFIPA Conference 2009 – Day 1
Posted: 8th June 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: Athlone Living Lab, Innovation, SAFIPA
Today I was joined by Rene Parker to attend the SAFIPA (South Africa – Finland knowledge partnership on ICT). The key discussion today was about Business Incubators for Innovation and Open Innovation Models to encourage collaborations in the Triple Helix (Academia-Government-Industry) area. A number of Finnish and South African cases were shared with clear indication [...]
Debt Breaker feature on CPUT website
Posted: 3rd June 2009 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: advice support, Debt Breaker, media
Our latest addition to our Advice Support services was featured on the CPUT Website. You can read the article here