Over dit project

Projectbeschrijving

RLabs, based in Bridgetown (Cape Town) recently also launch its Community Innovation Academy (CIA) where workshops, training, resources and mentorship are made available to community members with innovative ideas and technologies that will have a social impact and create employment. The ideas that are birthed in the CIA are then nurtured in the Innovation Incubator where it is developed to be scalable and sustainable and then taken to market.
Through innovation communities can address fundamental issues such as health, education, etc. to enhance economic growth and improve the quality of life. RLabs is a testament to a bottom-up approach to social innovation. Through the above initiatives more than 250,000 community members were supported using mobile phones as a counselling medium and RLabs gave birth to its first global product JamiiX (“Social Exchange”) that featured at TEDxAmsterdam in 2010.

Project doelstellingen

Short-term goal:
- create a workable space where community members could grow their ideas into products and projects that will have a social impact.

Long term goal:
- Developing a culture of Social Innovation in the community to address local and global problems based on collaboration.

Project doelgroep(en)

Community members where their well being are being threatened. Currently supporting through our mobile system 250,000 community members.

Op welke manier draagt het project bij aan het oplossen van armoede?

1) The project will create employment opportunities through the projects and products created in the incubator.
2) The products and projects will address social issues and provide empowerment to the communities reached through these activities.

Duurzaamheid

Due to the nature of the project the products and projects will allow RLabs to sustain the activities in the community.

Begindatum van het project

09 december 2010

Einddatum van het project

31 augustus 2011

Projectactiviteiten en tijdsplanning

STEP 1: (9 December 2010)
Removal of Prisoner
STEP 2:
Cleanup, fixing of fixtures and lighting, painting of Innovation Incubator
STEP 3:
Decor and installation of equipment
STEP 4:
Furnish the Innovation Space
STEP 5: (7 December 2010)
Launch of the Innovation Incubator

Verwachte eindresultaten

Fully equipped Innovation Incubator

Projectbegroting

Totaal bedrag project

EUR 850

Toelichting begroting

NB: The budget was lowered due to most of the work for phase 1 was done in SA by the RLabs team. The lowered amount would therefore be used to start phase two and freshen up the space after 7 months of operations.

The amount is therefore lowered from 4,900 Euros to EUR 850

Reeds ontvangen bedragen uit andere bronnen

None

Verwachte bedragen uit andere bronnen

None

Gevraagde bedrag aan 1%CLUB

EUR 850