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Demo Africa 2017 Lusaka edition will be held at BongoHive on Thursday 23rd March from 2:00 pm to 5:00pm where 20 startups are expected to pitch. The startups will be standing a chance to join the annual technology startups launch event scheduled for 6th and 7th September 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa. This is the… Read more »
The past few days have been a whirlwind extreme startup/investor/innovator heaven in Helsinki Finland at Slush 2016. After some great pitches, the African startups, Teledoctor from Zambia, Izyshop of Mozambique and Kgoshigadi Tradings of South Africa won the Bayer social Innovation grants at this years Global impact accelerator during the slush conference. The Slush… Read more »
The African Development Bank is this year hosting its 42nd Annual Meeting of the African Development Fund in Lusaka, Zambia. This will take from Monday 23rd to Friday 27th May 2016 at the Mulungushi International Conference Centre. The theme of the 2016 Annual Meetings is “Energy and Climate Change”. Seminars, workshops and other side events… Read more »
Startups are often defined as lean businesses that can scale, reaching new markets easily far and wide. While this might be the case, it doesn’t mean that all startups manage to scale in the way they should. As Zambia’s hub for entrepreneurs and startups, Bongohive was created to support early stage entrepreneurs to found and… Read more »
BongoHive is honoured to host Joni Catalano-Sherman, PhD. Joni has extensive experience working in innovation. Her career path has led her through the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to Johnson & Johnson in capacities that include Senior Director, Emerging Technologies at Johnson & Johnson Corporate Office of Science & Technology and Senior Director, New Ventures at… Read more »
Theme: INNOVATE – CREATE – THRIVE In line with the Theme of the ICT Business Forum and Expo, the Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) has established a young Innovators Challenge Competition. The challenge aims to demonstrate how innovative ideas can be taken from conception to actualization. THE CHALLENGE Innovators will be required to… Read more »
Guest blog by Imanga Kay Creativity makes digital things interesting. It’s quite simple to think about it that way, except, the case in Zambia makes it difficult to understand. This article is not about digital migration, so take a chill pill. I heard someone once say that digital was just 1s and 0s but creativity… Read more »
Guest blog by Imanga Kay The very first WordPress Lusaka Meetup was held yesterday at BongoHive. Aspiring bloggers sat together with veteran bloggers and shared their experiences with the content management system (CMS) called WordPress. Blogspot also popped in the conversation here and there, it seems nobody really uses it. For its first time being hosted,… Read more »
Zambia’s second national Forum on Creative Digital Media will take place on 18th June 2015. Forum 2014 was a vibrant gathering of people from industry and education which demonstrated the creativity, professionalism and energy of the rapidly developing digital media sector in Lusaka. One year on, we meet again to build on Forum 2014, to… Read more »
Looking for a flexible loan to expand your business? Fed up with high-interest rates, collateral requirements and tedious application processes? Nonprofit microlending service Zidisha is here to make things easier! On Friday June 19, BongoHive will be collaborating with Daniel Coysh, Zidisha’s country ambassador for Zambia, to host the Hive’s first Zidisha Microlending Workshop. Daniel… Read more »
