BongoHive, in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and ACDI/VOCA, has played a pivotal role in the Zambia EDGE Project by leading the ‘Leveraging Digital Technologies’ component. This initiative aims to empower Zambian agricultural small and …
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Cybersecurity Month in Zambia: Fostering a Culture of Collective Responsibility
The month of October marked a significant milestone for Zambia’s cybersecurity landscape as it celebrated the annual Cybersecurity Month under the timely theme “Secure Today: It’s Everyone’s Responsibility.” The overarching goal of this observance was to raise awareness of the …
Funding for Zambian Startups in 2021
A few months ago, we came across a tweet from a Zambian startup founder inquiring about funding for Zambian startups. After 10 years of supporting entrepreneurs, this is a conversation we are familiar with because we frequently receive similar versions …
Call for Applications: The AgriBusiness Bootcamp Zambia
Seven Startups Graduate The 6th Launch Accelerator Cohort
Three times a year, the launch accelerator latest batch of startup founders present their companies to a room full of business leaders, selected investors and media. Demo night takes place on the last day of each launch accelerator cohort.
Thursday, …
BongoHive Unveils 6 Startups at 4th Demo Night
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. …
7 Teams Develop Data Driven Solutions to Advance Access To Valuable Financial And Insurance Services – DataHack4Fi.
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 …
African Startups Shine At Slush GIA 2016
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 …
Developer Economics: State of Developer Nation Q1 2016
Based on the VisionMobile survey of 21,000+ software developers
Welcome to the State of the Developer Nation Q1 2016 report, based on the 10th Developer Economics global survey wave. Produced by VisionMobile, Developer Economics is the leading research program on …