Use of Social Media for

development of people in

Communities in Tension

By Marlon Parker

RLab

s

“A Community in Tension is where the wellbeing of Citizens are being threatened”

“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

Impacted… 2007

Athlone Living Lab (ALL)… 2008

“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

Community Social Media

Mom 3.0

SM Teens

Senior Mobile Sessions

The Reconstructed

Community Stories

Community Spaces

# Social Media Trainers: 16

# Trained in Social Media: 276

# of Mobile Subscribers: +80,000

# of Interactions: +2,500,000

Stories of Hope

Digital Voice

Community

Education

Empowerment

Upliftment

Reconstructing Citizens

Reconstructing Communities

“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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www.marlonparker.co.za

marlon@rlabs.org

Marlon Parker

@marlonparker

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