Techtrends Zambia

09/06/2026

𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗩𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 (𝗘𝗩) 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗼 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 $𝟮𝟭𝟱𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

Spiro (www.Spironet.com) has announced a $215M investment round to accelerate the deployment of its electric mobility and battery-swapping infrastructure across Africa. Building on the support of long-standing institutional partners such as FEDA, Spiro’s latest equity round draws global capital from Europe and Africa, confirming growing global confidence in scalable infrastructure-led business models across emerging markets.

“This past year marked a defining strategic milestone for Spiro. Across seven active markets, our deployment of 100,000 electric vehicles and 2,500 smart-swap stations has turned sustainable mobility into an affordable, everyday reality. Spiro has become a major driver of local industrialization, value creation and manufacturing across African markets with 6,000 sustainable direct and indirect jobs. Supported by our global pool of investors, we are entering our next growth chapter to deliver clean, cost-effective energy and transport alternatives to millions of riders across the continent”, stated Gagan Gupta, Founder of Spiro and Chairman of Equitane.

“We are investing in Spiro and bringing Danish pension capital into one of Africa’s most promising growth markets because we see potential for significant commercial growth in Spiro and electric mobility across Africa, as well as measurable climate impact. That is exactly the type of investment we want to make,” says Lars Bo Bertram, CEO of Impact Fund Denmark.

Read more at https://www.techtrends.co.zm/african-electric-vehicle-ev-platform-spiro-raises-215m-in-equity-to-scale-electric-mobility-and-energy-infrastructure-across-africa/

09/06/2026

09/06/2026

𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗜𝗧 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝗟𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆

(In picture: Valene Nagiah, Head of Asset Tracking and Management at V-Track™)

Across African markets, a shift is underway in how organisations approach IT asset management. Having acknowledged the scale of the visibility gap - the growing disconnect between what appears on balance sheets and what can be verified in the real world - finance and IT teams are now moving to close it. The conversation, once dominated by problem definition, is rapidly becoming one of implementation.

This shift follows a period of heightened scrutiny in which organisations have begun to quantify the financial impact of poor asset visibility: avoidable procurement spend on devices that already exist in their estates, capital tied up in assets that are no longer in productive use, audit exposure from inaccurate registers, and security risk created by devices that have drifted off the network without formal decommissioning.

"We are seeing a clear change in the nature of the conversations organisations are having with us," said Valene Nagiah, Head of Asset Tracking and Management at V-Track. "Twelve months ago, the primary question was: do we have a problem? Now, the question is: how do we fix it and how quickly can we demonstrate a return? That is a meaningful shift, and it reflects a broader maturation in how African businesses think about IT governance."

For many organisations, the first step in closing the visibility gap has been confronting the inadequacy of existing systems. Periodic manual audits and static spreadsheet-based asset registers are the default approach across much of the continent and are increasingly being recognised for what they are: point-in-time snapshots that begin losing accuracy the moment they are completed.

In environments where assets move constantly between offices, remote locations, field teams, and employees who may work across multiple sites, a register that is accurate today may be significantly out of date within weeks. The challenge is not simply one of data quality; it is structural. Manual processes cannot keep pace with the operational reality of a distributed, mobile workforce.

"The organisations making the most progress are those that have stopped treating asset management as an audit exercise and started treating it as a continuous function," said Nagiah. "Visibility is not something you achieve once a year. It is something you maintain every day and that requires infrastructure, not just process."

Read full article https://www.techtrends.co.zm/african-organisations-move-from-awareness-to-action-as-it-asset-visibility-becomes-a-board-level-priority/

09/06/2026

What a night!

As we share some highlights from the 6th Edition of the Techtrends Zambia Awards, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who joined us for this special celebration of Zambia's technology ecosystem.

Thank you to our nominees, winners, sponsors, partners, speakers, judges, media partners, special guests, and every attendee who took the time to be part of the evening. Your support continues to make these awards a meaningful platform for recognizing innovation, leadership, and impact.

Congratulations to all our winners and nominees. Your achievements are helping shape Zambia's digital future and inspiring the next generation of innovators and leaders.

To everyone who has been part of this journey over the past six editions, thank you for growing with us and believing in the vision of celebrating excellence in technology.

Enjoy the photos and relive some of the memorable moments from an unforgettable evening.

09/06/2026

MTN Zambia and have completed the world's first commercial deployment of the new five-band LampSite solution at the Mulungushi International Conference Center. The solution combines 1.8 GHz, 2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz, TDD 2.6 GHz, and 3.5 GHz in a single box and supports multi-band coordination for peak speeds of 1 Gbps. This deployment marks the start of a new phase of upgraded 5G indoor connectivity in Zambia. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4agTqiw

09/06/2026

09/06/2026

𝗠𝗧𝗡 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗔𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

MTN Group Fintech has entered into a strategic partnership with Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider, to accelerate the transformation of its mobile money ecosystem.

The partnership, which is expected to launch in Nigeria next quarter, will introduce a super-app platform designed to enhance user experience, deepen digital inclusion and enable a next-generation ecosystem for digital finance, lifestyle and commerce services around MoMo.

By leveraging Ant International’s advanced technology, MTN is evolving MoMo to enable stronger ecosystem integration through a mini app platform, enhanced fraud prevention and richer engagement features for consumers and merchants. The partnership represents a major step in building a more resilient and future-ready digital ecosystem.

“This partnership aligns with MTN Group’s ambition of leading digital solutions for Africa’s progress by leveraging scale, technology and strong global partnerships,” said MTN Group President and CEO Ralph Mupita. “It reflects our commitment to transforming the customer experience at scale by delivering a more seamless, secure and intuitive MoMo platform that advances digital inclusion and expands economic participation.”

Douglas Feagin, President of Ant International, added: “We are proud to support MTN Group Fintech in advancing its transformation journey. By combining MTN’s deep market insight with our advanced technology capabilities, we aim to help create a more inclusive, secure and scalable digital financial services environment that benefits both consumers and merchants in-country.”

MTN Group Fintech CEO Serigne Dioum said: “This partnership marks an important milestone in our ambition to help shape Africa’s digital financial future through our One Big Tech strategy.”

The transformation is expected to significantly enhance the MoMo experience in Nigeria by enabling faster transactions, improved reliability and greater integration across financial and commerce services. Customers will benefit from a more intuitive and responsive application that supports payments, savings and value-added services within a unified digital environment.

Beyond improving everyday financial interactions, the initiative reinforces MTN Group Fintech’s commitment to advancing digital inclusion and economic empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa, identified by the GSMA as the world’s most active mobile money region.

This transformation strengthens MTN Group Fintech’s position to help shape the future of digital finance by delivering accessible, intelligent and trusted financial services that support inclusive growth across the continent.

09/06/2026

𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗭𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗮 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗮𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱-𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀

Zambia continues to maintain relatively low levels of digital fraud compared to global markets, but new findings from TransUnion suggest the country is entering a critical phase where fraud risks are evolving alongside increased digital adoption.

According to the TransUnion H1 2026 Update: Top Fraud Trends Report, just 1.1% of transaction attempts involving Zambian consumers in 2025 were suspected of digital fraud, significantly below the global average of 3.8%. Despite this encouraging trend, fraudsters are increasingly shifting their focus to sophisticated, trust-based scams that are harder to detect and prevent.

The report found that among Zambians who reported losing money to digital fraud over the past year, third-party seller scams on legitimate e-commerce platforms were the leading cause of losses, accounting for 33% of cases. Money mule scams followed at 31%, while social engineering scams accounted for 25%.

“Zambia remains a lower-to-mid fraud risk market within Africa, reflecting growing but uneven digital adoption across banking, mobile payments, ecommerce and public services,” said Amritha Reddy, Senior Director of Fraud Product Management at TransUnion Africa.

“However, Zambia is entering a phase where fraud risk begins to rise alongside financial inclusion, rather than remaining opportunistic or isolated.”

Reddy warned that global experience shows fraud often emerges before countries reach full digital maturity.

“Global trends show that fraud does not wait for full digital maturity. It emerges early as trust in mobile and financial systems grows faster than identity, authentication and oversight controls. Zambia still has time, but the signals show that risk is building.”

One of the report’s most significant findings is that Zambia recorded its highest suspected digital fraud rate during account creation, at 13.7%, the highest among African countries surveyed and well above the global average of 8.3%.

“Zambia’s fraud profile reflects an early stage of digital growth, where onboarding and identity creation are currently the most exposed points,” Reddy explained. “Strengthening identity verification and early-stage controls now can materially reduce downstream fraud risk later.”

The report also revealed that Zambian consumers place a high value on online security, with 95% saying confidence that their personal data is secure is very important when deciding who to transact with online.

“Consumers are clearly willing to accept friction when it is linked to protection,” said Reddy. “Security in Zambia is evolving beyond compliance and emerging as a key driver of trust and brand.”

Read the full story here https://www.techtrends.co.zm/suspected-digital-fraud-in-zambia-falls-below-global-rate-in-2025-as-consumers-report-third-party-seller-scams-cause-most-losses/