Marlon Parker founded Reconstructed Living Labs (RLabs) in 2008 as a community project to address socio-economic problems in Bridgetown, which is in Cape Town, South Africa. It quickly became a global organisation with a vision of empowering and reconstructing communities through innovation, entrepreneurship, technology and access to economic opportunities. The RLabs physical hubs are generally situated in fragile and at risk communities with scarce resources that are plagued with social challenges. RLabs have reached more than 5 Million citizens across Africa through its mobile services as well as equipped more than 35,000 people through its training academies and programmes across the continent. RLabs has also connected more than 50,000 people to jobs. According to a recent workshop in partnership with Ashoka Globalizer and McKinsey & Company, RLabs has created more than US$22 Million in economic value through its economic empowerment and academy programmes during 2013/14.