Yesterday we ran a Social Media class with the girls City Mission Educational Services. We had not had a class with them for a while now. In yesterday’s session we did a recap on Gmail with them. These girls have a long way to go and much more to learn.
I remember when was [...]

RLABS’ Social Media Factory is doing the Social Media Strategy for the movie: I Now Pronounce You Black and White. We had a competition running on Facebook to win two sets of tickets to the Cape Town Premiere of this movie. Today we did the draw and have two lucky winners.
The winners of the two [...]

Almost a week has past after the Innovation Fair World Bank event and still its a hot topic for the RLABS team. Today we welcomed Tony Stuart from a local news paper “Athlone News” who did some interviews with the team who did the social media campaign and sharing their experience of this event.
Tony Stuart [...]

Writing from the World Bank Innovation Fair, in Cape Town, South Africa. We are on Day 2 and just finished a Panel discussion on ‘Scaling Innovations‘. A favorite topic of course!
A quick background on this event: The World Bank Development Marketplace has been taking ideas to action for the last 10 years. The Development Marketplace [...]

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The Reconstructed Living Lab is one of ten in South Africa, and the first one in the Western Cape. The project has grown out of collaboration between Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and a community organisation Impact Direct. It has features that are unique in living labs as it is community [...]