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Author: Kateule Nakazwe

Climathon Lusaka: Creating Green Solutions for a Sustainable City

Climate advocates, entrepreneurs, economists, civil society, academia, digital innovators and environmental experts will convene from June 29th to June 30th at BongoHive in Lusaka to create innovative and sustainable solutions to climate-change impacted development challenges affecting communities and cities globally and Africa and Zambia in particular. The first Climate Hackathon, aka #Climathon, in this format… Read more »

The BongoHive Community Library #Giveabook

Did you know that BongoHive has a book library? The BongoHive library was started in November 2016. In September 2016, Barclays Bank Zambia donated books to the community of entrepreneurs at BongoHive as part of their shared growth initiative for 2016. Barclays Bank Zambia donated business development books worth K10,000. The handover took place during… Read more »

The City of Lusaka #Climathon2017

WWF Zambia team and Impact Hub bring to you the City of Lusaka – Climathon 2017. The climathon is a climate hackathon to take place at BongoHive this June 28th – June 29th 2017. If you’re a developer, tech-head and entrepreneur or problem solver – this is something you don’t want to miss! How it… Read more »

7 Promising Zambian Startups Make The Launch Accelerator

BongoHive kicked off the 5th cohort of the Launch Accelerator programme. Seven (7) promising Zambian startups made it into the current cohort. The startups in this cohort are from various industries including agriculture, real estate, food and e-commerce, home improvement, gift fulfillment and gaming. In 12 weeks of the Launch accelerator, the startups go through customized series of interventions with… Read more »

MTN Y’ello Care Bloggers Mentorship & Training

MTN Zambia partnered with BongoHive to train and mentor upcoming Lusaka based bloggers as part of MTN’s 21 Days of Y’ello Care. The 21 Days of Y’ello Care is a campaign where employees across MTN’s operations dedicate their resources and time towards supporting charity initiatives in their local communities, this happens between the 1st and… Read more »

Slush Global Impact Accelerator 2017 Local Competition Date Announced

BongoHive, Lusaka’s technology and innovation hub will be hosting the Slush Global Impact Accelerator 2017 local competition on July 27th 2017 to select startups that will represent Zambia at Slush in November, in Helsinki, Finland. Zambian startups are invited to apply to pitch at the Slush GIA local Event on 27th July 2017. 10-15 startups… Read more »

Team Binary Wins Zambia DataHack4FI Competition Helping Get Zambian Students Insured.

Last night, we hosted the Data Innovation competition final where Team Binary won the competition with a product on financial inclusion for insurance through education with their target market size being the over 7000+ students at the University of Lusaka. Students can have the option of paying insurance premiums using mobile money. Insurance companies are the… Read more »

SEEDSTARS World Will Visit Over 23 Sub Saharan African Cities To Find The Best Entrepreneurs In Technology

Seedstars World, the biggest seed stage startup competition for emerging markets is coming back to Africa to scout for the top high growth startups and entrepreneurs and accelerate them on their path to global success. On this 2017 edition of the tour, they will visit over 23 cities across Sub-Saharan Africa to host bootcamps and… Read more »

BongoHive Unveils 6 Startups at 4th Demo Night

Last night, Lusaka’s innovation and technology hub, BongoHive unveiled 6 of Zambia’s most promising startups and graduates of it accelerator programme, Launch. Launch is an accelerator programme designed by BongoHive for startups that want to scale and gain traction. The startups in the programme are taken through a customized series of interventions. The programme is… Read more »