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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 »
This past weekend, BongoHive, Lusaka’s Technology and Innovation Hub hosted the first telecom application developer Hackathon, TADHack Zambia together with MTN Zambia. TADHack Zambia took place at MTN Zambia head office in Lusaka, Zambia. TADHack is currently the worlds largest telecom focused hackathon and also took place in 32 other locations in the world between… Read more »
Three (3) Zambian startups have been selected to represent Zambia at The Slush Global Accelerator in Helsinki, Finland this November, 2016. TeleDoctor represented by Sam Musariri, Musanga Logistics represented by Njavwa Mutambo, NewTech represented by Castro Shanobe. BongoHive, Lusaka’s technology and innovation hub hosted the first ever Slush local competition this past August 2016 to… Read more »
MTN Zambia, the leading telecommunications service provider and BongoHive, Lusaka Technology and Innovation Hub are hosting the first ever Telecom Application Developer Hackathon (TADHack) Zambia this October 14th – 16th 2016. TADHack the largest telecom focused hackathon in the world and was started in 2013 as a way of providing a platform for telecommunication application… Read more »
