RLabs: Living Lab Challenges and Opportunities

Reconstructed Living Lab

By

Marlon & René Parker

Reconstructing Communities through Innovation

“A reconstructing interaction space for collaborative design, creation,

dissemination and application of knowledge for empowerment, upliftment and

development of people and

communities in or headed for tension through the use of

innovative ICT solutions.”

“A reconstructing interaction space for collaborative design, creation,

dissemination and application of knowledge for empowerment, upliftment and

development of people and

communities in or headed for tension through the use of

innovative ICT solutions.”

Community Driven

Strong Community Partner

7 Full-time Staff8 Volunteers

Trained more than 130 in ICT

Supports 50,000+

Established 2 Community based businesses in ICT

Strong University Partners

9 Research Papers

Acquired 4 Business Contracts

NGO SM Training

COFISA & SAFIPA

LLiSA

Int. Partners

Challenges

Informed Community

Lack of Resources

Sustainability

Involvement

Informed CommunityCommunity Champions

Lack of ResourcesAvailable Resources

SustainabilityBuild Capacity

Government Academia

Industry

Community

Innovation Partnerships

Involvement

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

We are the change that we seek.”

Thank You

www.rlabs.orgwww.marlonparker.co.za

marlon@rlabs.orgrene@rlabs.org

@marlonparker@reneparker

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