This week I was honoured to present at Sahara Sparks to share lessons from grassroots innovation. We spend a lot of time working with young […]
Are we at the wrong party? What do we all want from innovation really?
Sometimes we feel like we’ve turned up at the wrong party. Everyone else seems to know each other and talk the same language. We don’t […]
Design Thinking
The d-school, or Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking of UCT, runs the Foundation Programme every semester, gathering students from various faculties across all South […]
Embracing Diversity & Breaking Boundaries:
Collaborating in diverse, multidisciplinary teams is a characteristic of Design Thinking in action: Three months ago 6 of our staff members embarked on a journey […]
Tanzania shows off Innovation at it’s best
“Karibuni!” (“Welcome” in English) are words that flow easily from the mouths of the locals in Iringa, Tanzania. Since 2012 RLabs has been doing […]
Mozilla Equal Rating Event
On the 17th of January 2016, RLabs had the privilege of hosting Mozilla and their Equal Rating Innovation Challenge. The challenge sought to find innovative […]
Africa Com Experience
“Shaken by excitement, the passion cannot be hidden.” It has been 5 years and not one November has not gone by ordinary. Every year the […]
InnovIA Applications are OPEN
Media Statement 26 May 2017 Release: Immediate RLabs InnovIA applications for Cohort 2 and 3 of 2016 are OPEN! Applications for Cohort 2 and 3 […]
How can social enterprises achieve large scale impact?
This article by our partner Dr. Christian Busch, Associate Director at the Innovation Lab at the London School of Economics and Political Science, explores how […]
RLabs Iringa: Start-up Envibright cleaning up local communities
It was January 2015 and our new GROW Leadership Academy intake started in Iringa, Tanzania. We had a group of young people who were passionate […]
