Category: Technology

Speed dating with the moms »

Speed dating with the moms
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Today we decided to do the Mom3.0 Cafe Session differently. We will be doing it Speed Dating style. Here is just a brief description of what speed dating is.
SPEED DATING: Wikipedia
Speed dating is a formalized matchmaking process or dating system whose purpose is to encourage people [...]

Angel on MXit supports over 23,000 »

Another exciting project that RLabs have been involved in has been the Angel on MXit project where we offer people support and advice in the areas of substance abuse, abuse, depression, debt counselling,stress and coping via their mobile phones. This partnership with MXit Lifestyle will allow us to scale our services and also provide much [...]

Mobile Journalism with youth »

The collaboration between RLabs and Cape Community Newspapers to bring Mobile Journalism to the community have been going well with the last few weeks having a focus on technologies such as Twitter, Facebook and blogging to share stories via their mobile phones. The learners from 3 high schools in Cape Town have been taught some [...]

Visit by BBC Digital Planet »

A few weeks ago the RLabs family was visited by the amazing BBC Digital Planet team who took a tour of the Cape Flats and learned more about how we are using Technoloy and Social Innovation to make a social change in the lives of communities in tension. We were honoured having Gareth and Colin [...]

Das on JamiiX »

After an exciting week of preparing for the JamiiX launch we are now in the process of migating our mobile counselling services over to JamiiX (See Image: DAS counsellor practising on JamiiX). The first service to move over will be our 3 year old Drug Advice Support service boasting a current total of 15,000 subscribers [...]