BongoHive maps tech incubators in Africa
Zambian tech hub BongoHive has created a user-generated online map of the tech business incubation hubs across Africa.
The map, entitled Hubs in Africa, uses online mapping platformUshahidi to build up a picture of the technology and entrepreneurship clusters emerging across the continent. There are already 16 tech hubs plotted on the map from 13 different countries, including a Cairo Hackerspace, iHub Nairobi, Co-creation Hub Nigeria and Jokkolabs in Senegal.
The hubs can be placed into different categories, including business incubators, hackerspaces, technology hubs and university tech labs. In order to add a hub to the map, users fill out a simple form. You can then filter the map by these categories and view a timeline of when the different organisations were added to the map.
Lukonga Lindunda, co-founder of BongoHive, said: “We thought that we would use crowdsourcing to uncover the full extent of technological entrepreneurship that exists across the continent. What better method to discover and share this information openly than by using the internet; using social-networking to build an on-line network of technology hubs.”
