This Blog is the journey of fulfilling a dream of reaching at least a third of the world’s population through technology, innovation and creativity and leaving a positive impact in the lives of those reached. Although this journey started over 3 years ago, I’ve now made it a lifetime purpose to pursue this will all my heart, skills and passion and dream of the day of reaching that goal of 2 Billion people through activities that I am involved in. You can expect updates from my journey and I will share what are new in the world of technology and innovation that can be used to make this dream a reality. There will still be a strong focus on using technology for community empowerment as I believe this is vital to support the global change agents who will make this dream a reality.
Short Bio of Marlon Parker
Marlon Parker is a Social Entrepreneur and and active activist of using Social Media and Mobile Technology for Social Good. He obtained his Masters degree in Information Technology (Cum Laude) and is currently busy with his PhD. He is often invited by many organisations and institutions (UCT Graduate School of Business, University of Rhodes, schools, NGOs, corporate) across the country as guest speaker on ICT for Community Empowerment. Marlon also produced several research academic papers, supervises post-grad students and co-authored in a published book called “The social and economical impacts of e-commerce“. He was also nominated in 2009 and 2010 as one of the Top Young South Africans by the Mail and Guardian. His passion for community development has influenced his work and led to being the founder of the Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) a global movement currently in 6 countries worldwide. He is also the founder and CEO of JamiiX a cloud and mobile customer support platform being used to provide counselling and support services to more than 300,000 people accross Africa, Europe and Asia.
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Hi Marlon,
Have been trying to follow up our meeting at Mobile Brain Bank, email bounced. I told you about an mHealth project I am working on in Uganda. Could you please get in touch?
Regards, Daniel
impressed every time by his presentations , ideas and projects . Happy to meet you at the 1% club during lunch and thanks for the stimulating conversation and for you to connect with Dennis for his project. Maybe till next time….
I feel that Marlon Parkers work is indeed inspiring and I want to feel part of this work to do good for those less privileged.
I have been speaking to my university teacher Jorn Messeter who has also been involved in teaching in South Africa and help with interactive design projects.
I would like to undertake my thesis in Cape town/Johannesburg and help in designing a positive interactive process.
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind Regards
Rozina
Hi Rozina. Great hearing from you and apologies for my late response. I would be delighted to speak to you about the work you intend doing. Jorn is definitely a great person who have done lots of work with RLabs in Cape Town. Looking forward hearing from you.
Best Wishes
Marlon
Dear Marlon
I received your details from Melanie Burke with Brent’s details. I sent a email but at this stage I have not managed to make a connection. I would like to share with you what we are doing at the University of the Western Cape in terms of substance abuse and explore possibilities of collaboration.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Xena
Hello,
We are in Cape Town for 2 more days with the Unreasonable Institute and we’de love to come visit you tomorrow (friday). Please let us know if that works for you.
Cesar
Hi Marlon,
I am doing research for a Masters thesis for Cambridge University on the topic of obstacles and challenges facing social enterprises and social entrepreneurs in SA. Would you be able to give me 30 minutes of your time to get a few insights? I’ll pay for the coffee! warm regards, LB.