Last week Ubongo Game Lab, our local game development community, held a week long Game Development Bootcamp and Training Session at Bongohive to give absolute beginners the tools and knowledge they need to get started in Game Development. It was an intense 3 days of learning, modelling and coding that got them ready for the… Read more »
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Startup Weekend Lusaka
Global Entrepreneurship Week ended on a really great note with Lusaka hosting it’s first ever Startup Weekend. If you don’t know what Startup Weekend is, it’s a global movement of entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs who come together for weekend-long, hands-on experiences to launch and explore business ideas. The official organizers of Startup Weekend Lusaka… Read more »
GDG Lusaka Devfest 2013
It’s Devfest season 2013! All over the world, different Google developers groups are hosting their own Devfests. GDG Lusaka decided to host theirs last week as their first ever GDG DevFest. Fueled by pizza and the lifeblood of our Google nerd herd, the first GDG Lusaka Devfest was pretty successful and with a great starting crowd… Read more »
Lusaka Social Good Summit
If you followed our activities last week, you’ll remember that the first thing to keep us busy was the Social Good Summit on Monday. The Social Good Summit is an annual event that was pioneered by UNF, Mashable and the 9Y2 in 2010 and takes place annually in September in participating countries all over the… Read more »
Mobile Monday: The State of Mobile Money in Zambia
If you’ve been following recent events, over US$700,000 was raised for the Westgate Mall attack victims through the Mobile Money service M-Pesa within 76 hours through the WeAreOne campaign. This reflects not only how Africans rely on their mobile phones for connectivity but also one of the massive benefits Mobile Money is bringing to the… Read more »
Instructables Lumi Build Day
On Monday we got more in touch with our artsy side during an Instructables Build Day with Lumi Inkodye. Instructables is sponsoring monthly build nights/days for makerspaces all over the world. Instructables is a well known website where members share their DIY projects with step by step tutorials. It is obviously quite quintessential to the… Read more »
Insaka with Joy Buolamwini
On Saturday we had a chance to join Joy Buolamwini here at BongoHive for the latest series of our Insaka talks. Joy is an intelligent and accomplished young mind with a bubbly personality reflected by her moniker ‘Jovial Joy’. Born to Ghanain parents in Canada, Joy has spent most of her life in the United… Read more »
mHealth in Zambia
If you’ve been observing the tech scene in Africa recently, I’m sure you’ve heard this term being used quite often, especially when discussing recent innovations. So other that a fancy looking acronym, what is mHealth? Well, mHealth, or mobile health is the use of mobile technology such as smartphones, tablets and featurephones to support health… Read more »
Our first Mini Game Hackathon
If you recall, a couple of weeks ago we had our first Game Dev Weekend where we introduced the process of Game Development and distributed some easy to use Game Development Kits. It also ended up in the formation of BongoHive’s official Game Development group, Ubongo Game Lab. As a follow up, we decided to… Read more »
Lusaka Social Media Day
The 30th of June has, since 2010, been declared Social Media Day by the ever popular social media news and tech site, Mashable. Why would we dedicate an entire day(or two) to social media? Well, it IS pretty big. Social media is rapidly transforming the way we do business and how we interact with each… Read more »