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Microsoft Invests In African Startups In Bid To Improve Internet Access On The Continent
Airband Initiative is a little known program run by Microsoft. The initiative sees them partner with equipment makers, ISPs, energy access providers and entrepreneurs to make affordable internet access a […] more
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Speech By Vice President Of Nigeria On Launch Of Google’s Free Public WiFi Initiative. Zimbabwe Should Take Notes
Recently our own president was officiating at an event where Liquid Telecom was unveiling an initiative to give free WiFi access to students. This is a great initiative. Google is […] more
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Kenyan Telecom Company Strikes Gold As They Partner With Google To Bring Internet-Delivering Balloons To Kenya
Google’s parent company -Alphabet- is partnering with Telkom Kenya, to bring their service to Africa in the form of Project Loon. Project Loon is an Internet-delivering balloon system and they […] more
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Econet Turned 20 Today-Their Journey So Far
Econet turns 20! It has been quite a journey since it was launched in 1998. Here is what Econet has been doing each year. 2005 Higher Life Foundation Supports under […] more
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Zim Space Agency Will Be Made Up Of The Following Departments
The Zimbabwe National Geospatial and Space Agency (ZINGSA) is set to be officially launched in a matter of hours. The Ministry Of Higher & Tertiary Education, Science & Technology Development […] more
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Akon To Launch His Own Cryptocurrency, Aims To Build Real-Life Wakanda
Yes. You read that right. The ‘Lonely’ hitmaker now has his own cryptocurrency and it’s called AKoin. Whether that’s pronounced A-coin or Ay-coin is another thing but what we do […] more
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[Press Release] Telecel Gives Away $60 000 Worth Of Prizes In Bundle Mania & Cash Boosta Promotions
Telecel’s recently gave subscribers over $60 000 worth of prizes for participating in the Bundle Mania and Cash Boosta promotions. Telecel subscribers won prizes ranging from cash, laptops, tablets and […] more
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Econet Diversifies Into Drones Through Cumii, Interesting
It seems Econet is diversifying their IoT platform to also include drone services. Through their subsidiary, Cumii, they are venturing into offering drone services in different sectors. Cumii is a […] more
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I Always Laugh Out Loud When People Talk About How Rich Our Country Is
I always laugh out loud when people talk about how rich our country is. There is always that talk about the diamonds, about the platinum in the Great Dyke belt, […] more
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UPDATED: President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s List Of Looters And Externalizers Is Out
UPDATE: When we first published this list, it had the third and final table that has category III cases missing. These are cases that have been described as illicit financial […] more
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Distributed Power Africa: Econet Makes A Huge Investment In Energy
Marred by persistent power cuts and inaccessible Zesa power lines in some locations, Econet has resorted to make a huge investment in energy to power its energy hungry operations. Their […] more
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The World We Will Die In Is Totally Different From The One We Were Born Into, That Is The 4th Industrial Revolution
The rate of technological change is accelerating. We can attribute this to Moore’s Law which is the doubling of computer processing speed every 18 months. For most of humanity’s existence, […] more
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Itel S32 Is The Impressive Budget Smartphone You Have Never Heard Of!
Bold claim indeed but even I was shocked by this Itel S32 smartphone. It is an upcoming smartphone brand with some pretty humble specs but a really impressive build. Let’s […] more
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Don’t Get Your Hopes Up. New OPPO Store In Harare Has No OPPO…Yet
If you are in Harare and you frequent the 1st street/George Silundika section of the city you might have seen a nice looking green sign with OPPO written in white. […] more
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Here’s What We Discussed At The Zimbabwe Internet Governance Forum 2017
In the afternoon we highlighted that we were attending the Zimbabwe Internet Governance Forum (ZIGF) 2017. In case you’re wondering what ZIGF is; well, ZIGF as defined is a multi-stakeholder […] more
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Government to Use Technology to Cut Costs and Reduce Corruption
Yes again this is an article based on the 2018 National Budget. Sometimes as citizens we do not probe much into these national documents and hence fail to hold public […] more
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A local firm invents a ‘self-charging’ battery. Could this be the future for Zimbabwe?
We bumped into something interesting on LinkedIn. You know Cybercard Enterprise Solutions (CyberBiz) right? If not then you should know its CEO at least. We last wrote about it in 2015 […] more
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What A New Zimbabwe Could Learn From Kenya To Reverse Falling Internet Penetration Rate
Poa! internet is a relatively new ISP in Kenya with a unique business model. Their focus is on the low income earners in the slums of Nairobi, the capital. They […] more
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How To Complete Technites Registration and Become A Technite maybe even start installing Kwese
Techzim recently wrote about you could earn up to $1500 per month working as a Technite. This was mainly centred around installing Kwese TV, a satellite entertainment service, which has […] more
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Wanna be a ‘technite’ but earn more than a Technite? Yes, a Super Technite
Kwese TV recently launched in Zimbabwe and has seen a lot of demand which has created jobs for people to install the satellite entertainment service. Technites are the ones who […] more
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Computer education taken to rural areas effectively by Zimbabwean man
In the quest to equip all Zimbabweans with computer skills different strategies have been employed in the past decade by various organisations. Most, because of either laziness or lack of […] more
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Harare Institute of Technology Technovation Expo – Inspiring the next generation of inventors and scientists
Today we attended a technology innovation Expo hosted by Harare Institute of Technology. The event held at their campus aimed to show high school students who are the next generation […] more
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Biometric Voter Registration & Zimbabwe Elections – Facing the risks
The implementation of a Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) system in Zimbabwe has been accepted by the majority of stakeholders as a welcome development towards the improvement of the electoral process. […] more
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ZESA to start massive load-shedding on 1 June… Owes $43 million in power imports
If ZESA does not pay for power it imports from South Africa, massive load shedding might kick in about a week from now, a report in the government run newspaper, The Herald, says. […] more
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Mapping the future – Blockchain Africa 2017
Early this month, a group of people huddled at the Focus Rooms conference centre in Sunninghill, Sandton. The purpose was to discuss the future of money, and the technologies that […] more
