Presentation at Living Labs Workshop in Southampton Univeristy

1. Reconstructing Community Spaces
“Athlone Living Lab”
By Marlon & René Parker

2. Substance Abuse Suicide
Depression HIV/AIDS
TENSION
Abuse Stress
Teenage pregnancy Debt
Gangsterism

3. Reconstructing Communities in Tension

4. Community
Government
Innovation Partnerships Academia
Industry

5. Champions NGO Partners
Community
Workshops Open Forums
Presentations Interaction Space
Site visits Development Space
Work Groups Steering Committee

6. Incubation Space Interaction Space
Networks
MOU
Research
Academia
Internships
Research Visits
Work Groups
International Collaborations

7. Endorsements
Steering Committee
Services
Government Work Groups
Incubation Space
Agreements
Industry
Agencies
Contract Research
Internships

8. Project Focus
Role of Innovative ICT Solutions to facilitate:
– care of citizens (social impact)
– dissemination of information, e.g., to inform
citizens about the problems, their consequences
and preventative mechanisms;
– education of citizens, e.g., train citizens specific
skills etc.
– Enterprise Development
Empowerment
Care Inform Educate Enterprise
Innovation
Research

9. Living Lab
A Living Lab is a user-driven research
methodology for sensing, prototyping,
validating and refining complex solutions in
multiple and evolving real life contexts.
A Living Lab is a system for building future
economy in which real-life user-centric
research and innovation will be a normal co-
creation technique for new products, services
and societal infrastructure.

10. Key Concepts
“It is a human-centric Research and
Development approach to ICT solutions
and innovations”
“A user community driven innovation
based on real life experiments”

11. Interaction Space
Socio-Techno
“Bridge” Community
Incubation
Development
Innovation
Space
Space
Community
University

13. Athlone Living Lab (ALL)
“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.”

14. Social Impact
www.thereconstructed.com www.mom2zero.com

15. Advice Support

16. Sample Conversation #1
4:17 PM @mxit: i need support
me: how can i help
4:19 PM @mxit: im using tik and desperately need help
coz I have a 9 month old baby.
4:20 PM me: well we are here to help
4:21 PM @mxit: r u there
me: yes
how long hav u been using?
4:22 PM @mxit: 6 years nd im only 18 nw
me: well are you willing to come and see someone in
person?
4:23 PM @mxit: yes i am. where
me: we are based in Bridgetown
66 Tarentaal Rd
4:26 PM u free during the day?
@mxit:yes i did nd thanx i'll come in next week.

17. Sample Conversation #2
2:58 PM @mxit: im new 2 ths so nt sure hw it wrks.
3:00 PM me: u talk .. i listen .. and try and help
3:02 PM @mxit: im a drug addict and i need help pls
3:05 PM me: Ok ,what are you addicted too if i may ask
@mxit: 26 female, married wit 2 kids
3:07 PM Tik
3:08 PM me: ok,and how long have you been using for???
3:09 PM @mxit: Marriage 16122008026.mp4messd up
totaly
3:11 PM me: how long have you been using and how long
have you been married for???is your husband using aswell
3:12 PM @mxit: 6yrs usin, married 2yrs, yes my husband
usin 2
3:13 PM me: is using as long as you are???
3:14 PM @mxit: no cud b 3yrs
3:17 PM me: ok,and have you tried to stop using before

18. 3:18 PM @mxit: yes and i didnt find it dificult eitha
3:19 PM The last i stopd was nw late last yr. 4 4mo.
me: and what was the longest that you stopped??
3:20 PM @mxit: nw 4mo
3:23 PM lft my husb few wks jus b4 xmas. stopd a wile b4
tht.day b4 new we hookd up agn and the nly way 2 gt
thru 2 hm was wen i gave in.
3:24 PM me: thats good but the problem is that you need
support,how did it happen that you went back to using
after so long
3:32 PM me: what happened after you relapsed after 4
months
3:38 PM @mxit: We wer stl 2getha stronger than eva. stil
using, moved out of cpt 2 start fresh elsewhr. thn after
2wks stil goin strong had 2 mve bk 2 cpt bcoz job
opportunities bigger in cpt. and tht wen it al went dwn
from thr. stil using drug, bt it went back 2 square 1. plus
minus 2mo bk he finaly gt job. lng distance driver. and he
jus changd drasticaly once agn. havnt seen or heard of
hm nw 4 ova 2wks

19. Angel
24 Hour Service
Easy Access
Advice
Buddy List
Help at your
Fingertips

20. Stakeholders Network
Academia Community
CPUT Impact Direct
UWC – FSIU Bridgetown Civic
UCT Athlone Youth and
Stellenbosch University Family Centre
University of Athlone SAPS
Southampton (UK) Athlone Schools Network
Malmö University (Sweden)
Kuopio University (Finland) Government
University of Pretoria City of Cape Town
NMMU
Dept. Social Development
Industry
LLiSA MXit Lifestyle NetSquared COFISA
PodCART Cell-Life Afrivate Tabeisa
JJeRR RSAWeb CCSLA DELL SA-DF

21. High ALL product/service portfolio
Service fully Self sustaining
Embedding in ALL
funded service
Fully funded
pilot/demo Endorsed service
High
Low
Critical mass of users

22. High ALL product/service portfolio
Service fully funded Self sustaining service
Angel
Service
Embedding in ALL
PAS CAS Advice Support
The Reconstructed
DAS DB
Mom 2.0
HBCC MedBx
ALL 0.1
Fully funded pilot/demo Endorsed service
High
Low
Critical mass of users

23. High ALL product/service portfolio
Service fully funded Self sustaining service
Angel
Service
Embedding in ALL
Include Commercial
Collaboration Targets
Expansion
PAS CAS Advice Support
The Reconstructed
DAS DB
Mom 2.0
HBCC MedBx
ALL 0.1
Increase user base
Fully funded pilot/demo Endorsed service
High
Low
Critical mass of users

24. “It is touching to see
District Six people
coming back and
benefiting from the very
institution that was
initially intended to
showcase that they will
never come back…”
Prof. Mikko Korpela,
Finland - 2004

25. Thank You
www.all.org.za / www.marlonparker.co.za
parkerm@cput.ac.za
rene@impactdirect.org.za
Marlon Parker / Rene Parker
@marlonparker / @reneparker
marlonct / reneparker
+2776 403 4920 / +2779 811 8536