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How we picture an office today is not how we could have pictured it a year or two ago. A typical work environment was a 9-5 schedule with all employees in their respective offices. Many businesses considered the office as the only place to meet deadlines, be productive and get the work done. This changed… Read more »
My name is Zoe Kuyanda, and I recently joined BongoHive Consult as Programmes Manager for the Hackers in Residence (HIR) Coding Academy. I am currently a 4th-year student pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology at ZCAS University. Growing up, I was inspired by my brother- He is a computer genius! I would invade his… Read more »
BongoHive is Zambia’s first innovation and tech hub, that provides incubation and accelerator programmes to startups at all stages of their businesses. We have conducted different programmes with various partners to help grow the Zambian startup ecosystem. It is our goal to leave a long-lasting social-economic impact by building more partnerships to help build a… Read more »
So many times, we hear about the word innovation and how organisations should place it at the core of their processes. Innovation is a buzzword right now, but it only carries the meaning once it has been put into practice and can produce measurable results. So, what does an innovative organisation look like? Before we… Read more »
Startups, just like any other business need funds to operate. The most important funding for startups is seed funding, which gets the business off the ground. However, funding for startups becomes even more important when their demand for goods and services and the need for expansion arises. Unfortunately, fundraising as a startup is not as… Read more »
Over the years, Zambia has continued to record a low representation of women in politics. According to the World Bank (2017), Zambia has the lowest proportion of seats held by women in the national Parliament in Sub Saharan Africa. The regional average is projected at just below 25%. In the current Zambian government, women only… Read more »
Last Sunday, 23rd January 2022, we concluded the MTN MoMo Hackathon which we were conducting in partnership with MTN Zambia and Channel VAS. The aim of the hackathon was to provide entrepreneurs and developers with the opportunity to build innovative financial and transactional applications using the MTN MoMo API platform. The application period was from… Read more »
My name is Bwalya Malwita. I am a Social Media Associate at BongoHive. How would I describe myself? I would say that I am an ambivert who usually doesn’t talk much but says a lot. In my pre-teen years, I spent an awful amount of time holed up in my room reading up on everything… Read more »
We are a few days away from 2022, and this is a critical time for businesses to plan and close off the year. By now, we would assume you have already conducted your 2021 review or are in the process of doing so. Since the pandemic, businesses across all sectors have to deal with rapid… Read more »
Do you know that a Google search on ‘why innovate’ produces 114,000,000 results? There is a lot of conversation going on about innovation and even more specifically, its importance in business. Innovation has become part of a survival kit for companies that want to meet current and future customers’ needs. The world has become so… Read more »
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