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By Taonga Innovation is the buzzword of the moment. From mobile money revolutions to solar-powered solutions, African enterprises are tackling challenges with resourcefulness that would make MacGyver proud! But how do you systematically cultivate innovation within your business or organisation? Here are several powerful approaches to spark innovation, no matter your size or location: Innovation… Read more »
The DataHack4FI Innovation Competition promotes the use of data and data analytics to solve challenges experienced by individuals or communities. The competition encourages Pan-African collaboration by creating opportunities for data enthusiasts and emerging tech companies to partner in developing solutions that address local financial and economic inclusion-related challenges. Building on the previous seasons of the… Read more »
The world renowned Global Startup Awards, the largest independent startup-ecosystem competition, already covering 45 countries in 5 regions of Europe and Asia has arrived in Zambia. The mission of Global Startup Awards is to find, connect, support, and celebrate key players in national and regional startup ecosystems worldwide and to fuse them together in a… Read more »
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), with the support of the African Development Bank (AfDB), in collaboration with the African Green Revolution Forum(AGRA), Women in Tech Africa, Wennovation Hub (Nigeria) and Suguba (regional), is launching Pitch AgriHack 2018. The theme for this year’s edition is “Women entrepreneurs innovate for agricultural transformation in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific”. The competition is open… Read more »
Impact2Insight (i2i), in partnership with BongoHive, CEC Liquid Zambia and Financial Sector Deepening Zambia have launched the DataHack for Financial Inclusion (DataHack4FI) Zambia competition, an African innovation competition that promotes evidence-based decision-making for improved financial service provision to low-income individuals. The launch DataHack for Financial Inclusion competition launch was officiated by Patrick Mutimushi, Director General… Read more »
insight2impact’s DataHack for Financial Inclusion (DataHack4FI) is an African innovation competition that promotes evidence-based decision-making for improved financial service provision to low-income individuals. The DataHack for Financial Inclusion (DataHack4FI) competition is aimed at the delivery of appropriate financial services to underserved and low-income segments of society, in a way that enables them to meet their… Read more »
BongoHive, in partnership with the US Embassy Zambia announce the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2017/2018. The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp will support 60 aspiring entrepreneurs in the following themes: Social Impact, Media & entertainment, FinTech, eCommerce & retail, AgriBusiness/CleanTech/Energy, and Internet of things/Hardware over the course of twelve (12) months starting November 2017. Under each theme, participants in the… Read more »
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 »
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 »
According to FinScope 2015 only 33.7 percent of adults in Zambia are financially included. While levels of financial exclusion have reduced since the past few years, financial inclusion remains relatively low and therefore of significant concern to both policymakers and financial service providers alike. This past weekend, BongoHive and Insight to Impact launched the Data… Read more »
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