A FabLab (fabrication laboratory) is a small scale workshop with the tools to make almost anything. This includes technology-enabled products generally perceived as limited to mass production.

FabLab Namibia is a team of two creatives. Housed at the Namibian Business Innovation Centre they strive to push the boundaries of creativity in Namibia and enhance the product landscape.They offer mentoring, support, workshops and will soon have their laboratory where anyone can make just about anything!

report on what we did concerning the social and digital media course at NBIC RLABS

RLABS 
Is a gobal movement and registerd social enterprise that provides innovation solution to address various complex problems

CORE ACTIVITIES

• Skills and training

• community development

• social innovation  mobile Internet solution
• social enterprise   incubation

 VISION
To impact empower and reconstruct local and global.

VALUES

• A movement of people of people
• hope 
• change

The  first week of the lesson we all opened e-mail accounts with gmail, twitter, you tube.

Internet in context
what is Internet?  the Internet is the infrastructure that allows you to build a website.
How do we connect to the Internet? we connect to the Internet using 3G, WI-Fi, dial up, modem, router,DS4. Example of Internet browsers are fire fox, opera mini, goggle chrome .

Search engines is a database system designed to index and categories Internet address otherwise known as URLs examples of search engines are goggle, yahoo and Bing.
DNS (domain name system) is the address to the sever that  the site is saved on and send to the correct destination.

We also look at the difference between downloading and uploading and the difference between URLs and DNS.