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ONYX to Provide Pay As You Go Bicycles Using a Mobile App and USSD platform

ONYX Connect Zambia is a tech company running a project focused on bringing enhanced mobility to households of all low-income earners and farmers in Zambia. The company started after the CEO and founder, Wyson Lungu had a breakdown in a remote area. The nearest place he could find alternative transportation was 15 kilometres away. After… Read more »

How a Redesigned Website Intensified Digital Marketing

We restructured website content to provide small and medium scale farmers with information on conservation agricultural practices. Amongst all the digital assets that exist, a website, together with its audience are the only asset that a company owns. This entails that web presence is the most important platform for a business. In this regard, creating… Read more »

Using A Tablet-Based Solution to Improve Data Collection, Aggregation and Visualisation

A tablet-based solution that cuts costs and reduces the data collection process from months to days. Raw data collected from the field usually contains errors and needs to be cleaned in order to avoid falsification. This makes data collection complex, time-consuming and costly. The above is common with paper-based methods of data collection as opposed… Read more »

Innovating with Tech Enthusiasts and Creatives to Co-create Viable Solutions in Education Delivery

Co-creation: An Ideation Session on ‘Co-creating Better Education’ What started as a mere tweet about the need for quality education in Zambia especially with regards to the poor reading and writing culture turned into an ideation session where education specialists, tech enthusiasts and concerned parties came together to brainstorm innovative solutions that can redesign the… Read more »

How We Used Augmented Reality (AR) to Showcase a 5 Year Financial Road Map

Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality(VR) means computer generated content that is overlaid on a real world environment. The idea is that you have an application running on your smartphone. Once you start the application and point the camera towards the target which are markers, specified images would appear on the markers and can be… Read more »