We would like to thank all of you who have supported the Africa Hubs project so far by either submitting reports or providing critical feedback.
We have published a detailed listing of the hubs that have been mapped so far. It is available here. Feel free to use and share it.
Guest post by Brian Odhiambo.
I recently attended Pitch Night hosted by Kukula Capital and co-sponsored by BongoHive. This was part of the Mobile Monday series of events that see Lusaka’s best and brightest entrepreneurs gather together to listen to and discuss the best means to contribute to Africa’s fast-growing startup community.
I was intrigued by the four ideas;LuseMarketData, Study Mate, BrainCliQ and Yanga and left pretty optimistic about the startup scene in Zambia. Briefly, LuseMarketData is a platform providing real-time and historical data and analysis on the Lusaka Stock Exchange. Study Mate aims to provide digitized school revision materials via netbooks and tablets to those who cannot access them. BrainCliQ is a social networking platform that aims to connect individuals based solely on their academics and to bring academic and intellectual discourse online. (and) Finally, Yanga is an e-commerce site that allows individuals to buy or sell items using and integrated SMS system that leapfrogs the need for credit cards that are largely not in use in the Zambian market. My descriptions obviously do not do justice to what were quite excellent presentations but my goal really is to highlight my observations and lessons, which are largely anecdotal since this was the first Pitch Night hosted by BongoHive and similarly the first one I’ve attended in Zambia. Read more
BongoHive will host the Hello, Android Code Labs to introduce mobile application development for the Android platform.
Attendees will learn the basics of the Android platform, skills for creating and deploying Android applications, and gain an understanding of the application lifecycle. By the end of the course, attendees will be able to write applications with GUI and use the built-in widgets and components of Android.
The training will be held every Saturday from 2pm – 5pm, beginning 22nd of December and will run for 11 weeks.
Basic programming knowledge is required. The language used for Android application development is Java. Experience in Java is not a requirement but will be of benefit to the developer.
To register, attendees are required to describe the application they wish to build. Read more
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