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By Alvine Chaparadza The successful launch of The ICT Innovation Drive has been met with praise by various stakeholders. One of the most visible moments of today’s ICT Innovation Drive launch was the presentation of big cheques to the 6 startups that are getting funding. The representatives of startups received…
By Tinashe Nyahasha Techzim is live at the Netherlands Embassy where they are discussing innovation for justice and social issues. This is around a fund/accelerator progamme for startups and entrepreneurs who are interested in tackling big social problems. The fund is called Innovation for Justice Accelarator The event is essentially…
By Farai Mudzingwa The long awaited Zimbabwe ICT Innovation Drive has finally been launched. As we reported last week Potraz was availing their funding project that is meant to empower innovators that are making technological advancements in various sectors. The drive was announced back in 2016 but was yet to…
By Tinashe Nyahasha We have already updated that 188 startups applied to receive financing from the government (POTRAZ) Innovation Fund and six of them were successful. Here is a list of who they are: Oyos Purple Signs Shift Organic Technologies Red Pen Afrimom Native Project We will obviously give you…
By Edwin Chabuka Watch the ICT Policy and Innovative Drive launch live Here The post The ICT Policy And Innovation Drive Launch Live At The HICC appeared first on Techzim. …read more Read more here:: Techzim Feed…
By Tinashe Nyahasha One of the questions that readers here at Techzim kept asking us was what happened to the Innovation Fund that was talked about way back in 2016. This fund was set up by the ministry of ICT through POTRAZ to be a revolving fund to finance tech…
By Alvine Chaparadza Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were created to you give control of your money. But when you store your bitcoin on an exchange, what’s the difference from just keeping your money in a bank which does not give you control of your money? So, it stands to reason…
By Alvine Chaparadza With all Steward Bank’s innovation drive, it may come as a surprise to many to know that Kwenga is not the first portable POS machine to grace Zimbabwe’s financial sector. Who then? CABS. CABS was the first to roll out portable POS machines. One of our readers…
By Farai Mudzingwa Yesterday we published an article stating that Kwese was removing 6 channels from their channel roster. It seems their press release was released prematurely and they have made it clear that these channels are still working and will continue working in the short term. We pulled the…
By Farai Mudzingwa Yesterday, talk show host Zororo Makamba put out a video commenting on the state of government websites. It was pretty surprising that official websites had such glaring errors. You would expect that the government would try to have platforms that are up to date and informative especially…