Earlier today the ZOL Startup Challenge 2014 semi finals were wrapped up thinning down the participating startups to ten finalists. Twenty three diverse business cases were pitched to the panel of […]
The age old challenge of raising funds to scale a startup idea has always dogged anyone who goes beyond the school or college project/prototype stage of creating a tech based […]
Free public WiFi access provider Saisai Wireless has been selected as one of the 40 finalists from across Africa to pitch at this year’s DEMO Africa event. This will be […]
It’s now part of the Zimbabwean political cycle- Every new Minister of Education comes in with a string of policies that are meant to radically revamp the way young minds […]
Local digital learning solutions provider eLearning Solutions says that it shall be launching a mobile eLearning platform called mCourser next week Tuesday. At a pre-launch media briefing the platform was […]
Last week Ericsson published the latest edition of its Mobility Report which takes a close look at mobile communication trends in various regions. The report for Sub Saharan Africa was […]
We are excited to announce the second edition of the Broadband Forum scheduled for the 6th of June 2014 at Cresta Lodge Harare riding on the theme “Rolling the D.I.C.E. […]
Zimbabwe’s first ever Startup Weekend kicked off at Hypercube Hub earlier this evening with a slew of ideas being pitched by the several participants who had come in from all […]
Although Africa’s come a long way in the telecoms revolution, it’s collective broadband adoption rate leaves a lot to be desired. Poor access to Broadband is the 21st century equivalent […]
With the launch today of EcoCash Loans, following in quick succession from EcoCashSave accounts, Econet wireless has yet again read from the M-Pesa script to be the dominant financial services […]
According to an article in today’s Herald, The Bankers Association of Zimbabwe has taken its ongoing battle with Econet to the state legislature. While addressing a parliament portfolio committee on youth indigenisation and […]
Despite what they will tell you about Zimbabwe now being a “basket case” ( whatever that means) agriculture is still an important sector of our economy. Tobacco still rules the […]
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Microsoft has announced five African startups that will receive grants as part of the Microsoft 4Afrika program, an extension of the Microsoft Ventures program. You will quickly notice that the […]
In just a couple of hours the year ends and 2014 rolls along with its high expectations from all of us. But before that happens we thought we’d look back […]
If you somehow missed the memo then you should know that the Zimbabwean economy is sick and the pessimist amongst us have gone further to call it “dead.” With the […]
Yesterday it emerged at the ICT in Agriculture seminar held in Harare that Mubatsiri Investments, the local licensee of the Esoko Platform, also provides content to the recently launched Ecofarmer […]
Following our review of the reprehensible Subscriber Registration law (Statutory Instrument 142 of 2013) we clairvoyantly predicted that one of the unfortunate effects of this law would be that Network […]
Local agro start-up Remote Livestock Marketing System (RLMS), by founder Allister Banks, today announced that their platform has transacted a total $3 million at an ICT for Agriculture conference held in […]
As you may already know, the StartupBus bus departs Harare on the 17th of November on a 5 day journey to Cape Town. Hypercube, one the tech hubs to launch in […]
Dear Mr President About ten years ago, at the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland, you made a remarkable speech on technology in third world countries, and […]
Yesterday, we exclusively reported that Econet was working to launch a new insurance service for smallholder farmers called EcoFarmer. Econet just issued a press statement announcing the product. Our report […]
We are getting information that Econet will in a couple of days launch the new EcoCash service called EcoFarmer which has been talked about a bit locally in the past […]
First let me apologize for not knowing to whom to address the letter to. Slow as I am, I am still trying to understand the different ministries. Should I have addressed it to the Minister of Information; Sports (I watch a lot of sports)
E TECH AFRICA EXPO 2013 After proving that it was a worthy place to be, the next edition of e-TECH AFRICA EXPO is scheduled for the 1st to the 4th […]
The 8th annual eLearning Africa conference will take place in Namibia this week. The event is organised by the ICWE GmbH and is this year hosted by the Namibian government.
Independence day is upon us and with it we are cause to reflect on our history. Colonization itself is viewed with universal disapproval whilst the only undisputed advantageous outcome of colonisation was the technology brought into the country as a result.
In October last year, it emerged that the Econet Wireless Group had formed a new company to drive the EcoCash mobile money service. Econet Services. The new company wasn’t “launched” or “announced” formally in the market, as far as we could tell at least. The change was treated subtly by Econet in as far as…
Although the Zimbabwean economy is now stable, several companies continue to close and the unemployment rate as we know it is still over 80%. While open source mostly refers to software, I believe it can also apply to economic development programmes and that such programmes can play a huge role.