RLabs

This year for has been incredible for the Youth Works Asia team and The Champions in Malaysia who really took up the challenge to impact their communities positively. It has been a few months that they’ve come together and started The Champions programme that was birthed in March this year. Below is the year in [...]

Earlier this year RLabs and its Asia partner, Youth Works Asia, participated in a research project with Mobile Youth giving some insights from young South Africans into how they adopt their brands. You can download the FREE ebook over here and happy reading. Influence – A Marketer's guide (Free Ebook Download by mobileYouth) View more [...]

Only weeks away from our team traveling to Nigeria to join our partners and hosts Youth for Technology . RLabs Nigeria will focus on developing and empowering youth in using technologies such as Mxit, JamiiX and Social Media tools to distribute health information and provide peer to peer counselling services. It will also work on [...]

Over the next few weeks RLabs and Youth for Technology will be starting the Social Revolution in Nigeria, A team from Cape Town, South Africa will go out to meet with the champions and take them through the RLabs training. The use of mobile phones, digital and social media, text and instant messaging and one [...]

  This week has been a week of Outreach for our team in Cape Town, with one of the biggest projects being our mobile senior training session consisting of 90 senior citizens in the community. In our communities our senior members are usually given mobile phones as a gift or a necessity by their children, [...]

Today RLabs – Cape Town set into motion another one of it’s outreach community programmes, with a group of people from The Haven Night Shelter. The programme will run over an eight week period, where the group from The Haven will be empowered with Social Media training and given a place to experience some of [...]

Young people from the community who attends the Legacy programme, a leadership course about making a difference and leaving a legacy, were in for a surprise today as they attended Twitter School. Twitter School is where we introduce community members to Twitter (via PC and mobile) and allow them to share stories and report on [...]

It is with great excitement that RLabs in Brazil have secured a space and over the next few months we will see the space being turned into a place of learning, empowerment, creativity, entrepreneurship and reconstruction. The Entrelaces team in Brazil have been working hard on locating a space for the RLabs activities to take [...]

The Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) together with Entrelaces (Brazilian Association for Research and Projects in Education) are proud to announce the beginning of their partnership and the foundation of RLabs Brazil. The goal of this collaboration is to promote social transformation through the creation and dissemination of knowledge in order to increase the empowerment, upliftment [...]

It has been an exciting few days with the RLabs team in Namibia. This is the second part of the training in partnership with NBIC (you can read about the last session here). The training allowed the budding young entrepreneurs to get their innovative and creative hats on by setting up a Digital and Mobile [...]

The RLabs teams have been in Windhoek,Namibia for more than 2 weeks with the first team identifying the current digital and entrepreneurship Eco-system and the 2nd team started the social and digital media training with a group of young people in partnership with Namibia Business Innovation Centre (NBIC). The first week was an opportunity for [...]

The RLabs team in Portugal have been working the last few months on a Web-based SMS Counselling Application that allows users to chat, send messages and manage their profile. The system currently known as “RLabs” has been developed as part of a partnership with the Mobile Computing group at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade [...]

It has been just over a year since our last visit to Porto, Portugal where the RLabs movement started its first international social franchise. Being back with champions Tiago and Gustavo was a wonderful opportunity to connect and assess the growth of RLabs in Portugal. The visit by Marlon and Rene gave RLabs the opportunity [...]

It is with lots of excitement that RLabs Rhini (Grahamstown, Eatern Cape) have kicked off and is on the move with its 14 week Social and New Media programme. The programme will empower and equip communities in Rhini to share their stories and engage using Social Media. This is a partnership with the local NGO [...]

I was invited as a guest speaker at the Aalto Global Impact launch event where the discussion was Inclusive Business. Below is the presentation with the key fundamental points of an Inclusive Business being the existence of an Eco-System to Innovate, Empower, Educate, Scale and Sustain. 5. Marlon Parker View more presentations from rahimsaatov Source: [...]

This week was another big week for RLabs as we signed a memorandum of understanding with Aalto University, Department of Computer Science who will be one of our key partners in Finland. This exciting partnership will provide RLabs with the opportunity to ensure bringing the best innovations to life making a difference in the lives [...]

RLabs is excited to have Nairobi Innovation Lab (NaiLab) as one of its partners in Kenya with a goal of fostering new innovation and entrepreneurs in Africa. This collaboration came through our partnerships with One Percent Club and we know that Africa’s heart beats for a new breed of innovators. NaiLab based in Nairobi is [...]

Over the last few months RLabs and NaiLab have been in discussions about a partnership since our first meeting in Amsterdam (thanks to One Percent Club). It was there that we saw an opportunity to work together but also change and transform the way traditional technology incubation happens. Both myself and Sam Gichuru have a [...]

Brent Williams, one of the RLabs team members, were in the UK for 6 weeks to explore the possibility of setting up a Social Franchise in Southampton. This will be a partnership with Southampton University under the leadership of Dr. Gary Wills. The focus of a RLabs in Southampton will be to provide Digital Literacy [...]

Today was another exciting day for us as we announced a partnership between ExtendedBITS and RLabs to start the first ICT Innovation Incubator in Somaliland. This will provide young people from Somaliland the opportunity to not just gain valuable ICT and Entrepreneurship experience but also provide an opportunity to grow a new breed of African [...]