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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 »
[vc_row 0=””][vc_column][vc_column_text 0=””] Following the successful 2015 and 2016 Zambia Entrepreneurship Summits, the Embassy of the United States to the Republic of Zambia organized a six-month Entrepreneurship Financing Boot Camp for young Zambian entrepreneurs. The goal of the Boot Camp program was to help empower entrepreneurs with skills and strategies and expert advice on how… 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 »
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 »
Lusaka based organizations partner with Nyamuka Zambia to reach more women and young entrepreneurs and provide more application centres for the Business Plan Competition Today, Nyamuka Zambia, an initiative of the Private Enterprise Programme Zambia (PEPZ), signed partnership agreements with key implementing partners in a ceremony held at the PEPZ offices in Lusaka. Partners include… Read more »
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 »
Facebook is challenging developers across the Middle East and Africa to create innovative bots in the Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge. This aligns with Facebook’s commitment to promote innovation in the Middle East and Africa by providing developers and start-ups with the tools they need to build, grow, monetize, and measure products and services. Facebook grew… Read more »
Lusaka’s technology and innovation hub BongoHive held their third Launch demo day yesterday Monday 12th December, 2016 where five highly promising startups pitched their businesses. The event was held at New Government Complex and officiated by The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry of Zambia, Mrs. Kayula Siame. “Government firmly… Read more »
This December 12th, 2016, Lusaka’s Technology and Innovation hub, BongoHive will unveil 6 startups in its current accelerator programme, launch. BongoHive kicked off the third cohort of Launch, which assists early stage startups in the growth and scaling of their businesses on September 12th, 2016. Launch is a 3-month accelerator programme that strategically focuses on… 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 »
