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Living Lab in Southern Africa network

• 17 May 2011
• Marlien Herselman

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Agenda

• What is LL elements
• LLiSA where we started
• Purpose of LLiSA
• Challenges
• Value proposition

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• It is not the strongest of the species that
  survives, nor the most intelligent that survives.
• It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
• Charles Darwin
• British Naturalist (1809-1882)

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Key elements of a LL

• User driven
• In real-life context
• Multidisciplinary
• Cover different domains/themes
• Impact on community to improve
• Involves different stakeholders
• Is supported by a specific funder/stakeholder Hel
  sinki LL
• Unique set of values with different approaches

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MERAKA hosting LLiSA
DST Mandate
Establish LL as centres of gravity enabling
community-academia-industry interaction with a
national agenda and fast results Build critical
mass consisting of infrastructure, RD, students
and leadership Establish local and international
networks and co-operation of SA
researchers Increase number of quality of
scientific publications in the field of ICT4D
Collaborative partners
DST, COFISA, SAFIPA, ENOLL, Industry partners,
HEIs, regional local governments, SMEs,
students, Communities, NGOs
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Purpose of LLiSA network

• Create capacity for understanding, establishing
  and developing LL activities in Southern Africa
• Support pilot projects in Southern Africa
• Facilitate local and international collaboration
  and linkages
• Links developers, research organizations,
  industry and government together for advancing
  regional LL activities

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Sustainable Innovation for rural or urban
communities
Excellent
Innovation on
Vision Invention

1. Technology
2. Business Model
3. User Experience

Creating Next Niche Offerings
BAD or So So
Excellent
Assessing Next Opportunities (Scale with Big
Impact is the Key)
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Challenges of LLiSA since 2009

• How to increase skills base
• Manage user expectations
• Balance/manage partner roles /stakeholder
  interventions
• Role out innovation products within communities
  which will increase economic development of
  communities
• Reward system for communities where LL are
  researching
• IPR within LL (ownership)
• What is Innovation
• Governance of LL
• Difference between project and LL

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Since 2009Value proposition of LLiSA

• Context we can provide specific rural
  communities poverty reduction skills
  development from a SA rural perspective
• Network with NGOs, local municipalities,
  government, HEI, industries, SMMEs, community
  representatives
• Lessons on scalability
• Guidelines on setting up and maintaining LL
  lessons, experience gained
• Allow communities access to new innovation
  creation (co-creation) as they are drivers of the
  process
• Trust relationships, diversity of network,
  community owned
• Quality feedback on community engagement with new
  ideas, inventions and innovations
• Access to depth of network and wide range of
  customer base
• Support to SMMEs on valuable lessons learnt and
  best practices
• Can provide links between different projects
  within LL
• Credible network with lot of members and access
  to communities to test products and do research
  collaboratively
• Has database of users for companies to access for
  test bed type research

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Recent developments in LLiSA network

• LLiSA launch on 24 February 2009
• 1st Annual LLiSA conference on 23,24 November
  2009 at Convention centre at CSIR, Pretoria
  Conference presentations/articles on LL
• ENoLL collaboration (visit from experts (Daan
  Velthausz, Tuija Hirvikoski, Minna Fred in
  February/March 2011)
• New additions to LL network and ones who is
  non-existing
• Upgrading of wikipedia to include social
  networking updates new webpage
• Two workshops before June 2011 to assist
  established and new LL with support, development
  and processes, evaluation
• Market the network to broader audience
• Site visits to all LL Monitoring and evaluation

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Data of LL in LLiSA
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LL information
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Sustainability and business model

• LLiSA will provide advise and support to new LL
  and existing ones on possible future products
• Incubation of LL can provide better innovation
  deliverable developed a toolkit of how to start
  and maintain a LL (guidlines, processes)
• In kind contributions by industry partners
• LLiSA board to develop sustainability plan,
  business plan, communication strategy and
  marketing strategy
• Leverage other science councils and research
  partners as well as industry
• Lobbying LLiSA at government dept.
• Donor funding
• International proposals with partners (univ,
  industry)

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LL Workshop RLabs March 2011

• Focus on sustainability, evaluation, funding and
  integrating social media into LL websites
• Recent visits to LL
• Current Activity of the Living Lab
• Alignment of the Living Lab to LLISA guidelines
• Meet Stakeholders
• Interview Stakeholders
• Assess Community Involvement
• Sustainability model

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Future developments

• ENoLL collaboration MoU
• Research papers
• Self evaluation
• Focus on measurement/evaluation (market,
  operational, financial, human, process capital,
  technology, renewal development, competitive
  advantage)
• Ask other LL to evaluate each other
• Evaluation based on purpose/objectives of each LL
• Every LL business model, purpose process,
  network matrix, use a specific ME framework
  Inventory of document, participation papers as
  trail, white paper, case studies
• Make use of LLiSAs small entity to use to our
  advantage to coordinate LL activities,
  communication and document materials
• Sustainability value proposition leverage
  funding opportunities, grants for specific
  purposes leverage cooperate social
  responsibility moneys, look international and
  share innovations across LL international
• Use social media more
• Next LL workshop in June and last one in November
  2011 use specific theme/focus

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What makes LLiSA a success?

• Hosting entity independent (Meraka)
• LLiSA board insight transparency
• Using specific community focus with DI and CI as
  key area for comparing and collaboration in
  Africa international
• Use our small entity as a strength to get work
  done
• Have regular face-to-face interactions and
  workshops
• Focus on successes of existing LL best
  practices and why LL fail also product testing
  between LL
• Research LL from all angles
• Share networks, knowledge skills transfer
  ideas
• Databases of users, industry involvement,
  stakeholder maps and unique focus of LL
• Write collaborative papers
• Market LL to each other and to potential
  funders/partners
• Uniqueness of each LL focus contributions not
  only on ICT

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Thank You

• Contact Details (LLiSA board)
• (Meraka host the network)
• Chair Prof Marlien Herselman (mherselman_at_csir.co.
  za)?
• Members
• Meraka Mario Marais (mmarais_at_csir.co.za)?
• Meraka Mmamakanye Pitse-Boshomane
  (mpitseboshomane_at_csir.co.za)?
• NGO Deon Manuel (deon.manuel_at_affrivate.com)
• Reconstructed LL Rene Parker (rene_at_rlabs.org)
• Siyakhula LL Sibukele Gumbo (sgumbo_at_ufh.ac.za)
• SAFIPA Thiru Swettenham (tswettenham_at_csir.co.za)
• URLs
• www.meraka.org.za
• http//www.llisa.net