After a very productive week at the conference with the Socio-Tech team presenting 3 papers and participating in the e-Health Forum, more exciting news were to follow at the end of one of Africa’s leading Technology Conferences. The SAFIPA sponsored Kujali (means “Care” in Swahili) stand won the “Best Demonstration” award at this leading conference. [...]

Over the past few weeks RLabs have been part of a project with CPUT Innovation Hub to develop a Mobile Application for Home Based HealthCare (HBHC). This project started last year as a collaboration between universities in three provinces in South Africa and the first prototype was showcased at this year’s IST Africa Conference in [...]

One of the exciting partnerships that RLabs have had through the World Bank Innovation Fair has been with Unfreemedia who’s goal is to overcome censorship with independent, investigative and frontline journalism. This amazing movement is spearheaded by the inspiring and experienced editor Leonard Doyle (@LeonardDoyle)who is based in Washngton, DC. He is a former foreign [...]

About a month ago Clinton Liederman entered a competition on twitter which you could stand a chance of winning 1 whole unit of South Africa’s national braai animal, the lamb and the winner was “Clinton Liederman”. This was a competition by the man behind  National Braai Day janbraai. Yesterday we had a nice braai and social gathering [...]

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 types [...]