International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political and social achievements. Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday [...]

We in week 2 of our DigiWomen programme and have the ladies from Carehaven all excited for their first lesson on the pc, we get down to our usual check in and say how we feeling. Monique loves this part because the girls are now allowed to express themselves freely. After all is said we [...]

It’s Monday and we nearing the end of month one on the 2012 Calendar, but for the RLabs InnovIA team we gearing up for the most intense 9 months of our lives. She’s the Geek who is one of the startups who will be incubated will endure a journey of fine tuning a Social Enterprise that will [...]

A few years ago I was a  Social Media for Social Change graduate at RLabs and since then they have been imparting skills acquired to individuals in the community. Today is one of those day’s that I thank God for the opportunity to give back once again as we have a group from Blikkiesdorp with [...]

On Saturday,November5,2011 was a day of excitement and nerves when Craig Ross and Carla Ferreira did the iRanD4Hope campaign where they had to run from the  foot of Table Mountain to RLabs in Bridgetown, (Athlone). Craig  and Carla started running  at 9:30 am. Their journey took them along the route of  Kloof Street then Buitengracht [...]

The Vote for Table Mountain campaign is empowering underprivileged communities in and around Cape Town by providing a platform to learn about the Internet. The campaign has generated just under 2500 new email accounts and organisers estimate that by 11/11/11, the date that voting for the New 7 Wonders of Nature closes, the campaign will [...]

In the earlier post titled: “DigiWomen transforming their community”, we shared that today was the launch of a new initiative of She’s the Geek and RLabs. We thought it would be great to share some of the videos of the DigiWomen being pampered by the ladies of Impact Direct. You can hear the buzz and [...]

Today She’s the Geek, RLabs and Impact Direct are out at the City Mission head office in Burns Road, Salt River. We are partnering in a project called DigiWomen: Transforming their Community. It’s a 7 week programme that includes Digitizing Women and having them create, share and engage using technology to become empowered and empower [...]

This has been an exciting week thus far. We are all out in Khayelitsha with the GROW Academy at the Bootcamp. The ‘recruits’ as they are called are quite excited and very interested in what they are being taught this week. Today we have the experts from Woothemes showing the recruits how to get signed [...]

“Introduction to Social Media for Social Good” The “new web” has transformed the way people connect and social media platforms have become an essential part of the organizational and business strategies. These technologies can be useful for businesses as strategic tools for engagement, relationship building with stakeholders and communities, networking and fundraising. With millions of [...]