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Are you an upcoming tech entrepreneur, developer or maybe you just have a great mobile app idea or web app idea? Then this is a great opportunity for you. The next Mobile Monday event will take place on Monday December 10. Theme: Pitch Night and will be held at Foxdale Court, 609 Zambezi Road at… Read more »

“How can people help those in need by doing what they love?” The Apps4Good Hackathon aims to build re-usable open source mobile apps and platforms. Apps4Good harnesses the talent and passion of software developers, graphic designers, social media gurus, marketing experts etc. to give back to their community by building local solutions to local problems. This round of hackathons will… Read more »

Do you have a fresh, interesting perspective on IT, business and technology and innovation in Zambia? BongoHive is looking for guest bloggers who want to offer their insight on the latest news in technology and innovation in the Zambian tech scene. If chosen for the blog, we will credit you by name and place a… Read more »

Guest post by Chrissy Martin. There is a lot of talk about whether or not M-Pesa’s success  in mobile money can be replicated in other African countries (the best answer thus far comes from this GSMA research, which basically says yes in East African, and not yet outside of the region.)  There is a similar conversation… Read more »

Lusaka Google Developer Group presents the first-ever Lusaka GDG Hackathon! We’ll be learning and hacking Google Technologies to create apps for the Google Apps Developer Challenge. Who will be there: Developers, Designers What will be hacked: Google Apps and Drive APIs and other Google technologies. What I will be hacking for: The Google Apps Developer Challenge. Learn about Google… Read more »

The Lusaka Chapter of Hacks/Hackers will be launching on Saturday 1st September 2012, in association with Lusaka Google Technical User Group and BongoHive, Hacks/Hackers is a rapidly expanding international grassroots journalism organization with dozens of chapters (and counting) and thousands of members across four continents (and counting). Our mission is to create a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists… Read more »

Lusaka Google Technology User Group (GTUG), in association with BongoHive, presents the Google I/O Meetup. The meetup will kick off with a brief introduction about Google I/O, followed by video sessions where attendees will watch some selected videos from Google I/O 2012. Google I/O is an annual developer-focused conference held by Google in San Francisco, California. Google I/O features highly technical, in-depth sessions… Read more »

Mobile Monday Lusaka chapter will host the next Mobile Monday on 25 June 2012 at TopFloor Theme: “Local Content and Mobile Apps Development in Zambia”  Programme: 1. Report from Communicasia Conference — Simunza Muyangana 2. Local content and apps development — what do we need? — Mulenga Kapwepwe 3. Telecom operator business model — Airtel 4. Mobile Apps… Read more »