This year, again, BarCamp Zimbabwe and the ZOL Jumpstart Challenge were a success. A big success. While BarCamp was held at the same venue as last year, we decided to take it outside and what a refreshing atmosphere full of networking, learning, mobile talk, gadget talk, discussions about mPayments, cloud computing, social media and everything that we expected a BarCamp to be.
The startup challenge pitches were also nothing short of amazing. Everyone, the judges included, attested the significant improvement in pitch quality and in the thought out business models. We all went away inspired about the capacity of the local entrepreneurs, creative & developers to create and build solutions to address solution gaps in the market.
But for all this to take place, sponsors, partners and speakers supported the initiative in different ways.
So, we are grateful to them, and this post is to just say thank you. Here are the sponsors and links to their websites so you can check out the products/services they offer.
Zimbabwe Online (ZOL)
These guys were the title sponsors. That means they bankrolled the challenge and some of the BarCamp. ZOL is one of the largest ISPs in Zimbabwe.
Econet was the gold sponsor. Econet is the largest telecommunications firm in Zimbabwe.
Media Matrix are video & audio production people. They filmed BarCamp and the challenge.
The guys, no, these ninjas; they do branding, marketing and design. They provided a gigantic outdoor LCD screen for the BarCamp. If you weren’t there, you can check out it in the pictures on our Facebook page.
We’re not sure what these guys do actually, but they demanded a mention so hell, why not.
C2 are a creative digital agency. Social media is one area that lacked in 2011. This year was very different; we trended on twitter (in Harare), thanks to these guys.
A big thanks also goes to the speakers that availed themselves to discuss the important topics they spoke on; Adam Roscoe from ZimSwitch, Collin Franco from Utande, and Larry Kwirirayi of 3-mob.
By the way, you can read about how the two days of tech fun and education went here and you can check out the startup that won the challenge here.
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Good stuff! I can attest to the great ideas pitched and BarCamp discussions…insightful.
What a brilliant event and i must say your MC Mr Artwel made the first day of the Barcamp a joy with his expertise. Keep it up. By the way i take it he is also part of techzim.
Here’s hoping this event will soon be available online like *cough cough* TED