Social Media for Reconstructing Communities in Tension

Use of Social Media for development of people in Communities in Tension By Marlon Parker RLabs

“ 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.”

Thank You www.rlabs.org www.marlonparker.co.za [email_address] Marlon Parker @marlonparker marlonct +2721 469 1138 +2721 637 4037 +2776 403 4920

Social Media for Reconstructing Communities in Tension

by Marlon Parker on May 29, 2010

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