Category: News

RLabs joins Youth Research Partners »

This week was another exciting week for the RLabs family as we officially joined the Youth Research Partners Network. Youth Research Partners are a global partnership of youth research and marketing specialists in Africa, The Americas, Europe and Asia. We collaborate to share insights, best practices and better serve clients. We are really honoured to [...]

RLabs features in The Star Newspaper »

Celebrating the partnership between RLabs and MXit during the Drug Awareness Week, The Star newspaper featured the Angel project that was initiated by RLabs. This service is FREE to all MXit users and provides them the opportunity to access information and LIVE counselling in the area of substance abuse. Read more about the LIVE Counselling [...]

Virtual Rehab on MXit »

The collaboration platform Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) has created a live counselling portal, JamiiX, on mobile social network MXit called ‘Angel’. According to RLabs, the portal is for South African youth in need of substance abuse counselling, and is being released in conjunction with Drug Awareness Week (21 to 27 June). Currently Angel have [...]

Mobile Phones for Social Change reaches 130,000 »

With the celebration of drug awareness week in conjunction with MXit, RLabs increased its counsellor capacity and had a massive growth in the Angel user numbers. Angel is an information portal providing support to users in the areas of substance abuse, abuse, depression, stress and coping. Today the Angel information service passed the 40,000 subscriber [...]

Etv Tech Report Comes To RLABS »

On Saturday Etv Tech Report (Etv) visited RLABS to do a story and some filming on what we are doing and how we are using Social Media to empower our communities. They arrived to at RLABS round about 1.30pm and started almost immediately with the interviews and gathering information as [...]