Every second week we will be hosting a group of school girls for the introduction to social media and the various tools on the World Wide Web. The social media classes forms part of their life skills for the year. These sessions are facilitated by 2009 mom2.0 graduate Rae Goedeman. Rae is a widow from [...]
Archive for February, 2010
COFISA closing conference Presentation
Posted: 18th February 2010 by Marlon in UncategorizedTags: COFISA, RLabs
Below you can find an earlier version of the COFISA conference I’ve attended. This is a few months old but provide you with the basic idea of what was presented at the conference.
CPUT Research Day Showcase
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Mobile Innovation for Social Change
Posted: 17th February 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, MobileTags: Innovation, Mobile, Mobile Innovation, Mobile Phones
There has been an increase demand for reaching emerging markets using technology (ICT4D initiatives). No other technology like the mobile phone have the reach of impacting people on a large scale as required in these markets. With most emerging countries (African Mobile Access and Usage)having high mobile penetration, there is a need for more mobile [...]
The Use of Mobile Phones as a banking tool in South African Prisons
Posted: 3rd February 2010 by Marlon in Mobile, UncategorizedTags: Mobile, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payments, Mobile Phones
Over the past few years mobile banking and reaching the unbanked have proved to be invaluable to the African Economy. Payment products such as M-Pesa have proved to be popular in countries such as Kenya but yet to be adopted in the South African context. However, with hundreds of thousands in South African prisons it [...]
Mobile Counselling reaches new heights
Posted: 2nd February 2010 by Marlon in Innovation, MobileTags: Innovation, Mobile, Mobile Counselling, RLabs
After 6 weeks of distributed mobile counselling for learners at schools who are in need of support with the problem of substance abuse, MoCo (Our Mobile Counselling service) have reached a thousand users with an average of 20 users being supported in 4 hours.
The service is a clear indication that organisations who wish to reach [...]