8. 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.
11. Athlone Living Lab (ALL)… 2008 Community Innovation Community Driven Capacity Building
12. “ 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
18. # 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
26. “ 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.”