technology for community empowement

Technology

For Community

Empowerment

By Marlon Parker

4.4 Billion Cellphones

"The cellphone industry is becoming a

consumercentric solutions business" 

Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo,

CEO of Nokia

"Mobile is going to be the next big Internet

phenomenon. It holds the key to greater access for everyone – with all the benefits that entails." 

Eric Schmidt,

CEO of Google

4,000,000

Toll FREE Numbers

4,800,000

PC Web Users

3Million Social Networks

R0.75c per SMS

10Billion SMS/Texts

38%

Disposable Income

NO FREE Calls

12Million

Mobile Web Users

34%

bank via Mobile

18Million

Mobile Chat

WWW

4,800,000

People

Mobile Web

12,000,000

People

Mobile Chat

18,000,000

People

Social Networks

3,000,000+

People

Blogs

10,000+

Texts

10+ Billion

Population 48,000,000

Mobile Primary

High Data Charges

High Mobile Penetration

Limited Broadband

Young Mobile Expert Users

High Mobile Information Transfer

The Broccoli Project The Rewards Program

for the Poor

The Reconstructed

WellbeingEducate

EmpowerCommunity

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

We are the change that we seek.”

Thank Youwww.rlabs.org

www.marlonparker.co.za

marlon@rlabs.org

Marlon Parker

@marlonparker

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