cofisa closing conference 2010
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Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs) Presentation at the COFISA closing conferenceTRANSCRIPT
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Reconstructing
Communities through
Innovation
By Marlon Parker RLabs
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“A Community in Tension is where the wellbeing of Citizens are being threatened”
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“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road
comes into existence.”Lin Yutang
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People passionate about reconstructing communities
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Our mission is to develop and sustain an
empowering environment where through teaching, learning, research
and scholarship our students and staff, in partnership with the community and industry, are able to
create and apply knowledge that contributes to development.
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Collaborate
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Impacted… 2007
Empowerment
Champions
Uplift
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Athlone Living Lab (ALL)… 2008
Community Innovation
Community Driven
Capacity Building
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“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
innovation”
Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs)… 2009
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Government Academia
Industry
Community
Innovation Partnerships
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Innovative Partnerships – Academic Visits
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Innovative Partnerships – Student Engagement
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Innovative Partnerships – Business/Government Engagement
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Innovative Partnerships – Community Empowerment
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# of Blog Posts: 2,000
# of Social Network on FaceBook: +10,000
# of Followers on Twitter : +10,000
# of Twitter updates: +60,000
Community Skills Development
Social Media Surgeries
Mobile Citizens Journalism
Mobile Phones for Social Good
# of Subscribers: +80,000
# of Interactions: +2,500,000
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…2010
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Trained Community Champions
Community Innovation Academy
Business Incubator
- Social Media Factory
- Mobile Consulting
Business Models
Empowered Project Teams and Management
Sustainability
RLabs Modelling- Processes- Personas- Innovation - R&D- Skills- Engagement
Partnership (E.g. RLabs EC, RLabs Asia)
Commercialization/Transfer of Innovation & Skills
Mentorship
Expansion
Global Innovation
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Technology and InnovationConclusion…
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Collaboration / Partnership
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Reconstructing Citizens
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Reconstructing Communities
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“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.”
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Reconstructing Communities through Innovation
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Thank Youwww.rlabs.org
www.marlonparker.co.za
Marlon Parker
@marlonparker
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