Vodacom and RLabs have teamed up to bring you the “Community Information Challenge 2010″. Many people in local communities have mobile phones and use them for voice and text. However, the use of mobile Internet is growing fast and can be used to enhance local communities. The mobile Internet can be used to share many [...]

Social Media Factory Members will soon be part of an exciting initiative where RLabs and Social Media Factory will be collaborating with the Mobenzi team. Social Media Factory is a RLabs initiave where we use local community members who have been introduced and trained in Social Media to be part of our service offering. The [...]

Today learners from Hanover Park came for Social Media training with RLabs that will be hosted over the next 2 days. Ten learners who are in need of job readiness skills were introduced to basic social media skills, email, Google Docs, information searching and gathering, filesharing sites, blogging and micro-blogging. This is a continuous effort [...]

Thanks to the excellent team at The Digital Edge who showcased The Story of the Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) in their show today. The Digital Edge is hosted by Saul Kropman and Jarred Cinman and is a weekly podcast brought to you by Cambrient which will expose its listeners to the inner workings of digital [...]

Over the past three years RLabs have trained and empowered hundreds of community members on the use of Social Media for Social Change. The programmes include: The Reconstructed, Mom 2.0, Senior Mobile Sessions, Social Media for Teens, Social Media for Non-profits and Social Media Surgeries (Above Brent helping a community member at one of our [...]