Tag Archives: JamiiX
RLabs Mobile Services
October has been a busy month providing support to thousands via the RLabs mobile services (Angel on MXit and DAS@jamiix.im). Both these services are unique in that it offer subscribers to these channels a wide range of social services that they can … Continue reading
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JamiiX: Using Mobile Phones and Cloud Computing to Change Lives
The last week has been exciting at RLabs as their JamiiX counselling team have been working hard in changing the world one message at a time. JamiiX is a cloud-based solution allowing its users to manage conversations via various Social Network … Continue reading
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RLabs Finalist for International Award
Since 2008 the RLabs team were involved in using mobile technology to provide counselling support services to thousands of youth at risk accross Southern Africa (Read more…). It was with great excitement when we got feedback today that this RLabs initiative is … Continue reading
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Drug Advice and Support hits 100k
In 2008 I was part of a team that launched a online mobile chat platform for drug users. This chat platform gives them an opportunity to chat with the services’”counsellors” when they feel the urge to use drugs. Last week … Continue reading
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From the Cape Flats to Europe
Guest post from jamiix.co.za (August 4th, 2010) The second leg of the JamiiX World Tour was Helsinki, Finland where it would be the first time JamiiX will be made available to Europe. JamiiX is a Web 2.0 technology that manages and … Continue reading
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RLabs, JamiiX, MobieG and “The Art Of Mobile Counselling”
Below is a guest blog post by RLabs (Jul 24, 2010) Two of our team members Craig and Brent was out in Johannesburg for 3 days to do training with MobieG. The purpose of this training was to equip the MobieG team to … Continue reading
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JamiiX used for RLabs Drug Advice Support mobile counselling service
Our young people’s lives are being destroyed by drugs and alcohol and it seems as if there is no hope for them, but here is a story about an innovation that emerged from The Cape Flats offering advice and support … Continue reading
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Mobile Phones for Social Change reaches 130,000
Guest Post by Rlabs: With the celebration of drug awareness week in conjunction with MXit, RLabs increased its counsellor capacity and had a massive growth in the Angel user numbers. Angel is an information portal providing support to users in the areas of … Continue reading
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Rlabs in the Tech Report
Rlabs has again drawn interest from the media, this time etv‘s new show ‘Tech Report’ payed them a visit to get some footage and the story behind the success of RLabs. The crew arrived and were surprised to find that … Continue reading
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