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By Nigel Gambanga We told you about our conversation with Erik Hersman, co founder of Kenya’s iHub and the man working in different startups like BRCK and Ushahidi. Here is the podcast we had with him where he shared some thoughts on the potential of African countries, Zimbabwe included, in…
By Nigel Gambanga Here’s our regular review of trending topics in technology for the Zimbabwean and African space. In this episode we touch on the new Econet Premium Suite, Telecel’s e-Juice system, the NIDC project being pioneered by Dream Big, African MNOs that are now investing in their local startup…
By L.S.M Kabweza Recently, I realised I don’t use Facebook that much anymore. I use Messenger everyday yes, but the main Facebook, the newsfeed, I just find too noisy and full of content that’s not helpful to me. Of course this noise is a result I caused myself by careless…
By L.S.M Kabweza About a month ago, we got information and published that Econet wad preparing to re-launch what used to be (a nightmare) called EcoLife. Today, that product is being officially launched in Harare, but under a different name – EcoSure. This is one product that has taken Econet…
By Nigel Gambanga Just last month we had Startup Weekend Harare “2.0” and from that a couple of startup teams from that marathon decided to compete on a world stage. The good news is both teams have now made the final twenty in the Global Startup Battle. Food Match and…
By Nigel Gambanga Hour of Code of Zimbabwe finally became a reality a couple of days ago thanks to the efforts of a group of techies that decided to get our country involved. Today marks its third day and the lessons in basic programming will be conducted at the Hypercube…
By Nigel Gambanga Yesterday Hypercube Hub hosted a fireside chat with tech entrepreneur and iHub co-founder Erik Hersman. He’d dropped in as part of a cross continent biker expedition. After his talk we managed to steal him for a brief chat. In this talk Erik shared four pearls of wisdom…
By Nigel Gambanga When it comes to African tech entrepreneurship there’s always a lot that is said about the Kenyan ecosystem and all that’s come from it. In a lot of these discussions names like iHub, M-PESA or Ushahidi usually come up as familiar references to the East African technology…
By L.S.M Kabweza Remember the court case of the VAS entrepreneur that accused Telecel of stealing his idea back in 2012? Well, it’s come to the fore again, but this time with a ruling. Yes, it has taken this long to get a ruling, so do keep that in mind…
By L.S.M Kabweza A few weeks ago, we noticed that Liquid Telecom contractors are now doing two significant things to smile about. First, they are now laying fibre in Zimbabwe high density suburbs. The first one, from what we’ve seen, is Warren Park, a suburb about 8km from the Harare…