Uusi: Mobile Social Network to address unemployment

January 20, 2011 admin 19 Comments »
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It is with great excitement that we would like to introduce our latest project part of the RLabs family. Uusi (meaning “New” in Finnish) is the latest exciting product being incubated in RLabs and will be officially launched in 2011. Uusi is a mobile social network that will provide its community members access to employment opportunities and basic educational services. This new Social Innovation is the brainchild of Terence Hendricks who is optimistic about the positive change Uusi can have on the lives of community members. During its testing phase Uusi have already attracted more than 1,200 users in its network in South Africa.

The goal of Uusi is to provide its members the opportunity to have a new beginning in their careers, education and future. Although still early days Uusi will soon announce the details of its partnership with Africa’s largest mobile social network MXit and Finnish educational mobile learning platform Ympyra. Over the next few weeks we will make more announcements on how Uusi and its partners are addressing unemployment through the use of Mobile Phones.

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This post has 19 Comments

  1. Nick on January 20, 2011 at 11:13 pm

    Very interesting idea. I look forward to hear more about how this works going forward…
    Out of interest, Is ‘Uusi’ pronounced ‘Yusi’?

  2. Reagen Allen on January 21, 2011 at 12:44 am

    Great stuff, congratulations to Terence and the RLabs team. Looking forward to read more.

  3. Maarten van Leeuwen on January 21, 2011 at 1:23 am

    Congrats. Keep up the good work!

  4. Kristiina Lahde on January 21, 2011 at 11:00 am

    “Uusi” in Finnish would be pronounced with a long “u”, like the vowel sound in “soon”. Finnish is phonetic so usually every letter is always pronounced the same way, and double vowel is just longer, with no other change.

    http://www.unilang.org/resources/pronscript/finnishaudio/UusiF.mp3

    Above link will give you an audio example.

    Don’t know how Terence and RLabs are pronouncing it ;-)

  5. admin on January 21, 2011 at 11:05 am

    Hi Kristiina and Nick we pronounce it with a long “u” like in “soon” but we also lift our eyebrows ^^ when pronouncing it :-)

  6. admin on January 21, 2011 at 11:05 am

    Thank you Maarten appreciate your support

  7. admin on January 21, 2011 at 11:06 am

    Reagen we will keep you updated with the development and progress

  8. Marlon on October 26, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    We excited that Uusi prototype is out and we hoping to launch first version next month.

  9. susan on September 16, 2012 at 8:53 pm

    I thnk u guys a doing a gud thng 4 people who a unemloyed

    I was 1 of those people but since I saw ur web I manage 2 get

    2 interviews of the jobs I always wnted n am hppy 2 say am now wrkng

    Wrkng keep it up

  10. Phelokazi on September 28, 2012 at 7:52 pm

    Looking hospitality jobs got national diploma in hospitality management

  11. kenny on October 31, 2012 at 4:23 pm

    uusi is very good thanx for this side

  12. admin on November 1, 2012 at 1:16 am

    Thank you Kenny. Did Uusi assist you in any way?

  13. Tamyrin on March 4, 2013 at 2:56 pm

    I would like a job

  14. Xolelwa Sopangisa on March 9, 2013 at 11:48 pm

    I need an uusi account without logging in through mxit

  15. admin on April 10, 2013 at 9:47 pm

    Hello. We working on a solution for you but for now it is via Mxit only.

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