It is always exciting to see innovative uses of mobile phones solving real-life problems. In Zimbabwe since 2009 the adoption of the mixed hard currencies monetary regime the one problem that has refused to go away is that of change. Retailers, small business owners, street vendors, bus operators and many others are struggling to keep [...]
South Africa is continuing to grow as a mobile hungry nation as a recent study revealed that South Africans spend more time on their mobile phones than any other media channel. As part of our research to understand youth reactions towards advertising RLabs conducted a mobile survey to 6,812 respondents which generated some interesting findings: [...]
RLabs have a goal to innovate, break new grounds and make a positive difference in the lives of others. One of the RLabs initiatives is the Innovation Incubator and Accelerator where we grow and nurture social enterprises. One of the social enterprises, Uusi, have confirmed a partnership with Nigeria’s largest jobs portal Jobberman and one [...]
Since its inception RLabs have always had a focus of using innovation to facilitate change and entrepreneurship as a model of sustainability. One of the key partners of RLabs over the last few years has been Mxit (Africa’s largest mobile Social network and Forbes top start up of Africa) who through providing RLabs access to [...]
We Are Social's Guide to Social, Digital & Mobile in Asia (Overview, Nov 2011) View more presentations from We Are Social Singapore
“Uusi” – meaning New in Finnish After 18 months of conceptualizing, testing and getting community members to engage with it on different platforms, Uusi the brain-child of one of the RLabs champions, Terence Hendricks, finally was privately released to the public only on the MXit platform. Using MXit as the launchpad was an obvious choice [...]
MobileYouth Report 2012: Generation O View more presentations from Graham Brown (mobileYouth)
Over the past week RLabs in collaboration with JamiiX started its 2nd Mobile Report for 2011 (Our first Mobile report is available here). The focus of the report will be on the response of youth (aged 13 – 35) in South Africa to Mobile Advertising. After 5 days of running the Mobile Survey we managed [...]
Great video by the Praekelt Foundation showing the current mobile phone trends in Africa. We will be revealing some research early next week regarding mobile phones in South Africa. Enjoy the video:
Nokia Create 4 Millions from ONEMINSTORY VIDEOS on Vimeo. Share your idea for an app and see it through as it’s developed into reality. Winners will be rewarded with a trip to Nokia World in London in October 2011. In addition, all winners will receive a brand new Nokia dual SIM device. Read more here.
