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The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2017/2018

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 »

8 Startups Graduate the BongoHive Launch Accelerator

The ingredients for the launch accelerator are simple: great entrepreneurs with registered startups, experienced industry mentors, business development, legal and finance advice, and access to customers & desire to grow or scale up in and outside Zambia. But it takes more than that. It takes hard work and dedication to turn these ingredients into something… Read more »

MTN Y’ello Care Bloggers Mentorship & Training

MTN Zambia partnered with BongoHive to train and mentor upcoming Lusaka based bloggers as part of MTN’s 21 Days of Y’ello Care. The 21 Days of Y’ello Care is a campaign where employees across MTN’s operations dedicate their resources and time towards supporting charity initiatives in their local communities, this happens between the 1st and… Read more »

Slush Global Impact Accelerator 2017 Local Competition Date Announced

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 »

Team Binary Wins Zambia DataHack4FI Competition Helping Get Zambian Students Insured.

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 »

BongoHive Unveils 6 Startups at 4th Demo Night

Last night, Lusaka’s innovation and technology hub, BongoHive unveiled 6 of Zambia’s most promising startups and graduates of it accelerator programme, Launch. Launch is an accelerator programme designed by BongoHive for startups that want to scale and gain traction. The startups in the programme are taken through a customized series of interventions. The programme is… Read more »

7 Teams Develop Data Driven Solutions to Advance Access To Valuable Financial And Insurance Services – DataHack4Fi.

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 »

Insight 2 Insight facility & BongoHive launch the Data Innovation Competition to advance financial inclusion in Zambia.

South Africa based Insight 2 Insight facility and Lusaka’s technology and innovation hub, BongoHive today launched a data innovation competition to advance financial inclusion in Zambia. In partnership with Financial sector deepening Zambia and the Insurers association of Zambia, the data innovation competition was launched today and will also a host a hackathon, co creation… Read more »

The DataHack4Fi Innovation Competition: Advancing Financial Inclusion Through Data Innovation

Insight2impact (i2i) in partnership with BongoHive Lusaka’s technology and innovation hub, Financial Sector Deepening Zambia and Insurers Association of Zambia announce the DataHack4FI Innovation Competition. The competition brings together data specialists (analysts and software developers) and Financial Service Providers (FSPs) to use data to create innovations that address low financial inclusion in Zambia. The competition aims to… Read more »