Saisai, one of the Zimbabwean startups that pitched and won an award at DEMO Africa. Some good news for local startups looking for exposure and the opportunity to secure investors […]
Zimbabwe’s Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres have started teaching all subjects using local languages, including vernacular languages. The languages listed and recognised as official in Zimbabwe are English, Shona, Ndebele, […]
The Ministry of Education which has been rolling out a new curriculum for Primary and Secondary Education in Zimbabwe recently shared some guidelines on subjects set for Ordinary Level students. […]
TEDxHarare will be hosting a series of talks under the Global Entrepreneurship Week theme in Harare next week. The talks will run from Monday, 14 November, until Friday, 18 November. As you […]
In the Zimbabwean cryptocurrency space, there have been a couple of players that have been focused on Bitcoin as a currency alternative. On this list, there’s Bitmari – a startup that has been […]
Held at Rainbow Towers in Harare, the event managed to bring together over 40 teams of young innovators and tech entrepreneurs who are trying to secure investment and gain exposure for the work they are doing.
A Zimbabwean hub, Stimulus Africa presents the inaugural Stimulus Africa Entrepreneurship Symposium [SAES] ICT for Development [ICT4D] 2016 that will be held from the 30th March 2016 to the 1st of April 2016.
It appears that in Africa, entrepreneurship is the new hype, everyone is talking about it in philosophical and fantastic terms yet very little facts and figures are going around. Africa […]
The Zimbabwean Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education has made it clear that Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects have strategic economic importance and are a priority. It is so much a priority that students taking […]
Students that are registering for Advanced Level science subjects at public schools are going to get a free education after an announcement was made that the government will cover their full school and boarding fees.
On Thursday the 28th of January 2016, there will be a Bitmari Meet-and-Greet at the Rainbow Towers in Harare. Starting at 5.30 pm the event(which is open to the public) is meant to offer interested parties an opportunity to learn more about BitMari and Bitcoin with an emphasis on exploring the opportunities that can come…
There is huge investment that is constantly being harvested from Zimbabweans living abroad. Tech startups can tap into this and they should be exploring some ways to do so. This would create a scenario where venture capital is essentially imported.
It’s easy to consider VSAT as an outdated phenomenon that nobody really talks about anymore. With Internet Providers complaining about the cost of VSAT landing fees and the gazetting of new fees reducing them to token figures, one must realise that indeed VSAT is still a technology to consider.
Harare Institute of Technology will hold a series of workshops on technology as part of its 10th Anniversary celebrations.
Powertel has unveiled CSR plans to bring internet connectivity to more than 50 Zimbabwean schools for free in a bid to compliment government e-services projects and in the process activate communities to fend for themselves.
We attended the RoboFEST 2015 edition which ran from the 31st of July to the 1st of August. Themed Agriculture in the 21st Century”, the event’s challenge was to simulate the planting and harvesting in agriculture using miniature robots assembled from a prepared toolkit.
Econet’s EcoFarmer VAS service has introduced a new platform called Dial-a-Mudhumeni. This offers information from agricultural experts via phone. By dialing 144, farmers can get help on livestock, tobacco and agricultural market information. the service costs 30 cents a minute.
The advancement in technology has seen Zimbabwean companies trailing in the type and quality of devices available at the work place. As a result employees have tended to bring their own devices into the workplace. Whether that indeed increases productivity and companies should adopt BYOD is a good point to ponder.
For someone in the rural areas, the opportunity brought by the internet, should not be boxed in being more efficient in their agriculture, it should be liberated to studying and specialising in anything they are talented for. They should learn opera and comedy and perform for a global audience from Chivi. They should write code…
This year DEMO Africa will be hosting an entrepreneurs’ event on the 24th of June in Harare as part of an African Tour. There will be one startup selected to launch its product in Lagos, Nigeria at the DEMO Africa Conference. Applications for DEMO Africa are still open though, with the deadline pushed to 30…
There are only 48 days left until the window for the applications for DEMO Africa 2015 closes. That deadline might not raise any concerns or mean anything for most people, but […]
It’s been almost a year since TelOne launched its Ka-Band VSAT service. The telecoms operator’s thinking at the time was to bring in a cheaper VSAT service that would expand […]
We should allow cell phones in Zimbabwe’s schools. Well, that is what the responsible powers think anyway. Just recently, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Education, Dr Lazarus Dokora, was quoted in the Herald […]
Earlier today it was reported by leadership.ng that the mobile network operator MTN Nigeria launched an insurance package for Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) called MTN Y’ello Biz. If […]
Zimbabwe’s telecoms regulator, POTRAZ, has said that in 2015 it expects to develop a National Broadband Plan with the help of operators and other broadband ecosystem ‘stakeholders’. Responding to our […]
Dream Big Technologies, a local startup that some of you might remember as a runner up at the ZOL Startup Challenge is not stopping at that one great startup idea. […]
The biggest news in East African tech entrepreneurship this past week has to be about the new venture fund that Safaricom launched a few days ago, aimed at encouraging the […]