Marlon Parker is a Social Entrepreneur and an Information Technology Lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) since October 2000. His field and expertise is in ICT for Community Empowerment. Marlon is co-author of the published book, “The social and economical impacts of e-commerce“. He served as one of the judges for the 2008 E-commerce Awards and was nominated in 2009 as one of the Top Young South Africans by the Mail and Guardian. His current project is RLabs.
RLabs is a non-profit, passionate about reconstructing communities through innovation. It empowers local communities in disadvantaged contexts that are developing new innovations to meet local and international needs. They developed the world’s first Mobile Counseling/Support Platform JamiiX.com where counseling and support is provided to over 100,000 people across Southern Africa in the areas of HIV/AIDS, depression, substance abuse, child abuse and other social issues causing tension in communities.
TEDxChange
During TEDxChange Amsterdam Marlon Parker presented his project and asked for assistance.The goal is to commercialize JamiiX so as to achieve sustainability in the social impact activities by RLabs in communities and to ensure people have access to FREE social services to improve their standard of living in disadvantaged and rural areas. Also, the organization aims to build an international network of possible collaboration partners to scale such an initiative. During TEDxChange in Amsterdam Marlon Parker presented his project and asked for assistance. At TEDxAmsterdam he will share the results.
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