Presentation used to describe technology landscape in South Africa for Amsterdam Business School.

1. Technology For Community Empowerment By Marlon Parker

7. 4.4 Billion Cellphones

8. " The cellphone industry is becoming a consumercentric solutions business " Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo , CEO of Nokia

9. "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

11. 4,000,000 Toll FREE Numbers

12. 4,800,000 PC Web Users

13. 3Million Social Networks

14. R0.75c per SMS 10Billion SMS/Texts

15. 38% Disposable Income

16. NO FREE Calls

17. 12Million Mobile Web Users

18. 34% bank via Mobile

19. 18Million Mobile Chat

20. 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

21. Mobile Primary High Data Charges High Mobile Penetration Limited Broadband Young Mobile Expert Users High Mobile Information Transfer

22. The Broccoli Project The Rewards Program for the Poor

26. The Reconstructed

27. Wellbeing Educate Empower Community

28. “ 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.”

29. Thank You www.rlabs.org www.marlonparker.co.za [email_address] Marlon Parker @marlonparker marlonct +2721 469 1138 +2721 637 4037 +2776 403 4920