Being part of the Innovation Fair hosted by the World Bank in Cape Town has proved to be a lifechanging experience for many of the RLabs team. RLabs has officially partnered with the World Bank to manage the Social Media activities for the event. Some of the tools utlised at the event included Ning (proved [...]

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 [...]

This week the RLabs team are pleased to be part of the Innovation Fair “Moving Beyond Conflict” that will be hosted in Cape Town. This incredible event will bring together some of the great minds in the Social Tech space and will also provide a spotlight for the selected projects for the World Bank.

Innovation Fair: [...]

About Us
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 [...]

After attending the SANGONeT conference and seeing the large number of non-profits who would like to start using social media in their organisations, RLabs will be hosting a FREE Introduction to Social Media workshop for non-profits on Thursday 26 November. The workshop will cover:
1. Understanding of Social Media and its context
2. Identified tools that [...]