On 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 their DIY projects with step by step tutorials. It is obviously quite quintessential to the… Read more »
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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 to Ghanain parents in Canada, Joy has spent most of her life in the United… Read more »
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 Theology in Kenya and spent some time in South Africa afterwards. He recently decided to return… Read more »
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 is the use of mobile technology such as smartphones, tablets and featurephones to support health… Read more »
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 9th to the 21st of June. The Internet Summit invites people from all over the… Read more »
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 Internet Summit (AIS) will take place in Lusaka, Zambia from the 9th to 21th June… Read more »
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, the World Bank and regional partners that encourages the improvement of communities through group collaboration… Read more »
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 to Asia. Consequently, there is a huge potential for mobile development. Mobile Monday is an… Read more »
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 as you might hope. The Bantu Babel app aims at giving traditional African languages more… Read more »
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 ICT Hub models across Africa. The objectives of the study is to understand the models of… Read more »