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Marlon Parker is the founder of Reconstructed Living Labs (RLabs) - a South African social entrepreneur who uses information communications technology (ICT) to empower communities, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and named by the Mail and Guardian as 1 of 300 young South Africans you have to take out to lunch. He was elected an Ashoka Fellow in 2014.
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RLabs is about equipping and building capacity in someone that gives that person hope.
The African continent is being flooded at the moment, with some of the big tech players grabbing good talent here for their businesses.
We believe education is key to bringing about the eradication of poverty.
We lose our developers very quickly because they can get three, four, or five times the salary at Google, Amazon, or Facebook.
The adoption of mobile technology has given us the opportunity to scale our impact through leveraging this channel as a vehicle for change.
The main aim of RLabs is to create spaces where people can be impacted, empowered, and transformed through HOPE, technology and innovation, training, and economic opportunities.
Everything we do is still core to our vision of developing [and transforming] through innovation, technology, education and entrepreneurship.
As much as people use technology to communicate and to be informed, we believe we can also maximize it to drive education, entrepreneurship and development services to those who need it most.
There is no criteria to participate in any of the RLabs workshops, you just have to be unemployed, have time to attend all sessions and always smile.
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