HISTORY

OUR STORY

RLabs is an award-winning South African non-profit, established in Bridgetown, Cape Town, in 2009. We have since expanded our model to 25 countries across 5 continents, impacting more than 60 million people through our work. Our main aim is to create environments and systems in which people are impacted, empowered, and transformed through HOPE, Innovation, Technology, Training, and Economic Opportunities. To date, more than 2,500,000 people have accessed RLabs skills, training, and economic empowerment programmes. Our goal is now to impact 2 Billion people by 2030, and we are starting by focusing on where it is needed most - Africa.

Academy

Provide wide access to education and training programmes

Innovation Lab

Research, Ideation, Design, Prototyping, Sandboxing, Innovation and Technology

Incubation & Acceleration

Providing SME Support, Training and mentorship accelerating high-impact innovative and scalable business

RLabs Women

RLabs Women provides artistic opportunities by offering various training and empowerment programmes through the following pillars: Startup Women, DigiWomen, Junk.fund, Live! & Virtual Reality.

CONSULTING

WE SPECIALISE IN

RLabs have provided consulting services to a variety of public and private sector organizations. Our extensive expertise in emerging markets, product development and innovation strategy has led us to work with partners such as BBC, Media24, Naspers, UNWomen, Unicef, DFID, Mozilla, Facebook and Nedbank.

CUSTOMIZED TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

DESIGN THINKING

TRAINING

INNOVATION STRATEGY

UI/UX CONSULTING

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A New Journey Begins

Christine has been with us since the early years and has been instrumental in shaping our values and culture as we know it. She not only embodies it in everything she is, does and stands for, but is a leader of extraordinary compassion, vision and drive. She has a way of believing in people, trusting them to deliver and riling them up to deliver exponentially

Reconstruct communities through innovation, technology and education.

RLabs was birthed in a marginalised community known as Bridgetown, Cape Town. Our passion is solely to create systems and environments where the lives of many can be impacted, where individuals may find empowerment and transformation can occur through hope, technology, innovation, training and economic opportunities.

‘Positive behaviour is harder to Track, Verify, and Incentivize‘

Zlto Rewards the RLabs digital rewards platform where members are incentivized for validated work and self-directed learning or training programmes. These are stored as a working asset on the blockchain that can be easily accessed and used to validate the capability of members on the market network platform. Zlto have impacted more than 2 million beneficiaries.

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Earn. Spend. Track

Christine Taphel

Chief Executive Officer

Christine is the CEO of RLabs South Africa, holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Linguistics and is a passionate advocate for youth and women where she collaborates with organisations to drive social and economic change.

Marlon Parker

Founder

Marlon has a passion for technology and innovation that has influenced his work and led to being the founder of Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs)

Rene Parker

Co Founder and Director

René has played a leading role in transforming RLabs into an award winning global social enterprise from the humble beginnings of a community project in Cape Town.

Craig Du Mont

Director of RLabs Group

Craig is driven by seeing people equipped and impacting those around them. He currently oversees the process of taking ideas for social change and turning them into scalable innovations that can be commercialised.