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As part of Liquid Telecom’s ongoing African Innovation initiative, start-ups in Zambia will have greater access to high-speed internet and cloud-based services CEC Liquid Telecommunications, part of the leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom, is helping to accelerate Zambia’s emerging gaming and Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem through a new partnership with BongoHive; Zambia’s first… Read more »
The Embassy of the United States of America to the Republic of Zambia Deputy Chief of Mission Christopher Krafft today launched the 2017/2018 Entrepreneurship Boot Camp for young Zambian entrepreneurs in collaboration with local technology and business incubation hub BongoHive. The goal of the Boot Camp program is to support development of youth entrepreneurship in… Read more »
On Monday 02/10/17, we hosted the launch of the Facebook Developer Circles: Lusaka. The developer Circles is a community for developers to come together, learn about the latest Facebook tools and collaborate on the interesting projects. The event attracted 40+ developers and tech enthusiasts from both the industry and educational institutions like The University of… Read more »
BongoHive, in partnership with the US Embassy Zambia announce the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp 2017/2018. The Entrepreneurship Bootcamp will support 60 aspiring entrepreneurs in the following themes: Social Impact, Media & entertainment, FinTech, eCommerce & retail, AgriBusiness/CleanTech/Energy, and Internet of things/Hardware over the course of twelve (12) months starting November 2017. Under each theme, participants in the… Read more »
BongoHive has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide startups that have been through a BongoHive program with free hosting services on their Amazon Web Service platform. The offer from Amazon Web Services to BongoHive startups includes: free access to AWS and tools via AWS promotional credits (approx. 2 years) free and discounted… Read more »
The ingredients for the launch accelerator are simple: great entrepreneurs with registered startups, experienced industry mentors, business development, legal and finance advice, and access to customers & desire to grow or scale up in and outside Zambia. But it takes more than that. It takes hard work and dedication to turn these ingredients into something… Read more »
BongoHive, Lusaka’s technology and innovation hub has engaged Musa Dudhia & Co, to make legal services accessible to BongoHive start-ups. BongoHive programs guide startups through the entrepreneurial journey; from idea right through to getting investment. Speaking during the official announcement of the development in Lusaka this morning, BongoHive Co-founder and Head of Entrepreneurship, Simunza Muyangana… Read more »
MTN Zambia partnered with BongoHive to train and mentor upcoming Lusaka based bloggers as part of MTN’s 21 Days of Y’ello Care. The 21 Days of Y’ello Care is a campaign where employees across MTN’s operations dedicate their resources and time towards supporting charity initiatives in their local communities, this happens between the 1st and… Read more »
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, 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 »
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