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Botswana to host Pan-Africa’s most celebrated innovation event of the year – Innovation Prize for Africa!

The prestigious African award marks its 5 year milestone boasting the “Made in Africa” spirit Gaborone, Botswana 20 January, 2016 — The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) in a joint collaborative effort with the Government of Botswana (GoB) represented by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Science and Technology and the Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) today announced that… Read more »

BongoHive Job Opportunity: Accounting & Finance Lead

If the terms game-changer, thought-leader and startup-guru ring true of you then this is the ultimate job for you. We are searching for someone with strong accounting and finance knowledge who’s experienced in scaling startups. Background BongoHive is Zambia’s first technology and innovation hub. Since 2011, we’ve been organising issue specific workshops and seminars, running… Read more »

Total Launches K390, 000 Startup Competition for Zambian Entrepreneurs

Total Zambia this month celebrates its 65th anniversary in Zambia and launches a competition to encourage social and economic development through entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship continues to create social and economic benefits for communities across Zambia and supporting startups will encourage more youth participation in economic growth. Speaking in Lusaka at the launch of the K390 000… Read more »

Developer Economics: National Trends Survey | OCT – NOV 2015

Developer Economics is the largest, most global developer research program today. Now reaching 13,000+ developers in over 140 countries, VisionMobile’s Developer Economics is the de-facto leader in tracking developer trends. Currently in its 10th edition, the research program tracks developer sentiment across platforms, revenues, apps, tools, APIs, segments, business models, and regions. Metrics include monetization… Read more »

A Talk with Joni Catalano-Sherman | October 08 at 6PM

BongoHive is honoured to host Joni Catalano-Sherman, PhD. Joni has extensive experience working in innovation. Her career path has led her through the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to Johnson & Johnson in capacities that include Senior Director, Emerging Technologies at Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science & Technology and Senior Director, New Ventures at… Read more »

ICT Business Forum 2015 Innovators Challenge – ZICTA

Theme: INNOVATE – CREATE – THRIVE In line with the Theme of the ICT Business Forum and Expo, the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) has established a young Innovators Challenge Competition. The challenge aims to demonstrate how innovative ideas can be taken from conception to actualization. THE CHALLENGE Innovators will be required to… Read more »

Kukula Capital and eVa Fund invest $500,000 in Dot Com Zambia

Kukula Capital (“Kukula”), a leading Zambian venture capital investor, and eVentures Africa Fund (“eVA”), a leading Dutch venture capital fund specializing in E-commerce in Africa, are pleased to announce the signing of a transaction with Dot Com Zambia, a growing e-commerce company headquartered in Lusaka, Zambia. Kukula and eVA have jointly agreed to initially invest… Read more »

Insaka: Benjamin Katubiya (Recap)

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1592823432027{padding-right: 10px !important;padding-left: 10px !important;}”]About three weeks ago we had the privilege of hosting successful Zambian entrepreneur and businessman – Benjamin Katubiya, CEO and founder of BUK Holdings,  for an Insaka at BongoHive. Mr. Benjamin Katubiya generously awarded us with two hours from his busy schedule. Without a doubt, sitting down to listen to… Read more »