Frontier Tech Talks: Using Lean Startup to test new business models in Zambia

James Wilkinson
Frontier Tech Hub
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2 min readOct 28, 2019

“The biggest challenge we have when tying up with larger organisations….is that corporates often fail to look at the bigger picture, such as the welfare of people that may use the bicycles.”

“Workshops gave us a format for allowing users to give feedback in real time, before we went to scale.”

“When looking at rolling out 20,000 bicycles, logistics becomes a challenge….as well as the cost of transportation. We have been leveraging our partners to start with…now we need to develop our own in house transport operations.”

Members of Kawiza Women’s Group in Southern Province — one of the first groups of customers for Onyx

We were fortunate to be joined by Wyson Lungu from Onyx Connect for the fourth episode in our Frontier Tech Talks webinar series.

He spoke about how he worked with local and international students to navigate skills gaps in developing a 3D printing sector in Nepal.

You can listen to the webinar, and view Ben’s presentation by clicking here.

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Launch event for Onyx and Buffalo Bicycles at Soweto Market, Lusaka.

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James Wilkinson
Frontier Tech Hub

Working at Brink as part of DFID’s Frontier Technology Livestreaming Programme. Pragmatic about tech, fascinated by behaviours.