By Marlon & René Parker

Reconstructing Community Spaces “Athlone Living Lab”

TENSION

Substance Abuse

Depression HIV/AIDS

TENSION

Abuse

Teenage pregnancy

Stress

Suicide

Debt

Gangsterism

Reconstructing Communities in Tension

Government Academia

Industry

Community

Innovation Partnerships

CommunityChampions

Workshops

Presentations

Site visits Development Space

Interaction Space

Open Forums

NGO Partners

Work Groups Steering Committee

Academia

Interaction Space

Networks

Research

Internships

Research Visits

International Collaborations

Work Groups

Incubation Space

MOU

Government

Industry

Endorsements

Steering Committee

Services

Work Groups

Incubation Space

Agreements

Contract Research

Agencies

Internships

Project FocusRole 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

Care Inform Educate

Innovation

Empowerment

Enterprise

Research

Interaction Space

UniversityCommunity

Incubation Innovation

Space

Community Development

Space

Socio-Techno “Bridge”

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.”

Stakeholders NetworkAcademia

CPUTUWC – FSIUUCTStellenbosch UniversityUniversity ofSouthampton (UK)Malmö University (Sweden)Kuopio University (Finland)University of PretoriaNMMU

CommunityImpact DirectBridgetown CivicAthlone Youth andFamily Centre Athlone SAPSAthlone Schools Network

Industry

LLiSA MXit Lifestyle NetSquared COFISA

PodCART Cell-Life Afrivate Tabeisa

JJeRR RSAWeb CCSLA DELL SA-DF

Government

City of Cape Town

Dept. Social Development

Em

bedding in ALL

Critical mass of usersLow

High

High

Service fully funded

Self sustaining service

Fully funded pilot/demo Endorsed service

ALL product/service portfolio

Em

bedding in ALL

Critical mass of usersLow

High

High

Angel Service

Advice Support

ALL 0.1

Mom 2.0

CAS

The Reconstructed

ALL product/service portfolio

PAS

DAS

Self sustaining service

Endorsed serviceFully funded pilot/demo

Service fully funded

MedBxHBCC

DB

Em

bedding in ALL

Critical mass of usersLow

High

High

Angel Service

Advice Support

ALL 0.1

Mom 2.0

CAS

The Reconstructed

ALL product/service portfolio

PAS

Collaboration Expansion

DAS

Increase user base

Include Commercial Targets

Self sustaining service

Endorsed serviceFully funded pilot/demo

Service fully funded

MedBxHBCC

DB

“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

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