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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 »
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 »
Seedstars World, the biggest seed stage startup competition for emerging markets is coming back to Africa to scout for the top high growth startups and entrepreneurs and accelerate them on their path to global success. On this 2017 edition of the tour, they will visit over 23 cities across Sub-Saharan Africa to host bootcamps and… Read more »
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 »
