Reviewed by Sithembile Ncube So for the past couple of months I’m sure most of us have skimmed through articles on smartwatches, Google glass and how wearable technology is going to be the future. I’ve been fascinated but I haven’t been as enthused as others because I haven’t seen the gap it would be filling… Read more »
Startup Weekend Lusaka
Global Entrepreneurship Week ended on a really great note with Lusaka hosting it’s first ever Startup Weekend. If you don’t know what Startup Weekend is, it’s a global movement of entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs who come together for weekend-long, hands-on experiences to launch and explore business ideas. The official organizers of Startup Weekend Lusaka… Read more »
GDG Lusaka Devfest 2013
It’s Devfest season 2013! All over the world, different Google developers groups are hosting their own Devfests. GDG Lusaka decided to host theirs last week as their first ever GDG DevFest. Fueled by pizza and the lifeblood of our Google nerd herd, the first GDG Lusaka Devfest was pretty successful and with a great starting crowd… Read more »
Call for guest bloggers
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.
Lusaka Social Good Summit
If you followed our activities last week, you’ll remember that the first thing to keep us busy was the Social Good Summit on Monday. The Social Good Summit is an annual event that was pioneered by UNF, Mashable and the 9Y2 in 2010 and takes place annually in September in participating countries all over the… Read more »
Mobile Monday: The State of Mobile Money in Zambia
If you’ve been following recent events, over US$700,000 was raised for the Westgate Mall attack victims through the Mobile Money service M-Pesa within 76 hours through the WeAreOne campaign. This reflects not only how Africans rely on their mobile phones for connectivity but also one of the massive benefits Mobile Money is bringing to the… Read more »
Instructables Lumi Build Day
On Monday we got more in touch with our artsy side during an Instructables Build Day with Lumi Inkodye. Instructables is sponsoring monthly build nights/days for makerspaces all over the world. Instructables is a well known website where members share their DIY projects with step by step tutorials. It is obviously quite quintessential to the… Read more »
Insaka with Joy Buolamwini
On Saturday we had a chance to join Joy Buolamwini here at BongoHive for the latest series of our Insaka talks. Joy is an intelligent and accomplished young mind with a bubbly personality reflected by her moniker ‘Jovial Joy’. Born to Ghanain parents in Canada, Joy has spent most of her life in the United… Read more »
The Buzz on: Kelvin Aongola
Background: Kelvin is one of our newer members at Bongohive. He is best known around here for his startup YandApps. Having grown up in Zambia, Kelvin spent a lot of time between different provinces. He went on to study Theology in Kenya and spent some time in South Africa afterwards. He recently decided to return… Read more »
mHealth in Zambia
If you’ve been observing the tech scene in Africa recently, I’m sure you’ve heard this term being used quite often, especially when discussing recent innovations. So other that a fancy looking acronym, what is mHealth? Well, mHealth, or mobile health is the use of mobile technology such as smartphones, tablets and featurephones to support health… Read more »