BongoHiveOn Monday we got more in touch with our artsy side during an Instructables Build Day with Lumi Inkodye. Instructables is sponsoring monthly build nights/days for makerspaces all over the world. Instructables is a well known website where members share …
Author: Simunza Muyangana
Insaka with Joy Buolamwini
On Saturday we had a chance to join Joy Buolamwini here at BongoHive for the latest series of our Insaka talks. Joy is an intelligent and accomplished young mind with a bubbly personality reflected by her moniker ‘Jovial Joy’. Born …
The Buzz on: Kelvin Aongola
Background: Kelvin is one of our newer members at Bongohive. He is best known around here for his startup YandApps. Having grown up in Zambia, Kelvin spent a lot of time between different provinces. He went on to study …
mHealth in Zambia
If you’ve been observing the tech scene in Africa recently, I’m sure you’ve heard this term being used quite often, especially when discussing recent innovations. So other that a fancy looking acronym, what is mHealth? Well, mHealth, or mobile health …
The Africa Internet Summit
If you’ve been paying attention, Lusaka’s tech community has been really active for the past two weeks. What for? Well, for the first time ever the Africa Internet Summit was being hosted in Zambia at Lusaka’s Intercontinental Hotel from the …
The Africa Internet Summit 2013
The Africa Internet Summit (AIS) to see the new Era of African Internet Industry:
African Internet Community using AFRINIC 18 meeting to open event to wider audience in business and emerging industries.
Zambia 28 May 2013 – This African …
RHoK Innovation Hackathon Lusaka 2013
This weekend, BongoHive, Peace Corps volunteers and eager techies from Lusaka got together once again for a Random Hacks of Kindness(RHoK) Global Innovation Hackathon here at BongoHive. Random Hacks of Kindness is a joint initiative by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, NASA, …
Mobile Monday review: What’s trending
In case you haven’t heard, our continent is exploding . . . in mobile technology consumption. Not only does Africa have the fastest growing mobile presence in the world but it also has, overall, the second largest mobile market next …
The Bantu Babel Official Launch
Although European dialects have been adopted as official languages in many African states, if you found yourself outside the main cities anywhere in Africa, it wouldn’t take long for you to realize that English won’t take you as far …
Comparative Study on Innovation Hubs Across Africa
Guest post by Hilda Moraa
Source: iHub Research: The 7 Hubs under study
Introduction:
iHub Research releases the first report of a kind ever on ICT Hubs research. The on-going research aims to understand the unique factors that make up …