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Presented at the first annual Living Labs in Southern Africa Conference with the focus on Challenges and Opportunities.
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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
[email protected]@rlabs.org
@marlonparker@reneparker
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