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hiveonline expands AWAK outreach through Rabo Foundation and Swiss Capacity Building Fund (SCBF)
Our partnership with Association of Women in Agriculture in Kenya (AWAK) has received funding from the Rabo Foundation and the Swiss Capacity Building Facility (SCBF) to support more smallholders grow their businesses in Kenya. This extended partnership between AWAK and hiveonline will leverage and extend the myCoop.online platform to provide market and credit access to…
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The need for Sustainable Finance in Africa: A blockchain solution.
Africa is a continent with a lot of potential! There are many across the globe who see this potential and are working to unlock it such as NGOs, banks, or CEOs, all of these groups realise that sustainable finance is key to unlocking Africa’s potential. In this blog post, we discuss how blockchain technology can…
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Hiveonline extends Mozambique rollout with Norges Vel and AMPCM
Hiveonline has signed an extension of our partnership with Norges Vel and AMPCM to support the growth of the smallholder Cashew farming community in Mozambique as part of the ConnectCaju programme. The new 17 month phase will increase the usage of hiveonline’s myCoop.online application to open access to supply chains and financial services to 200,000…
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Revolutionising value distribution in Rural Africa
NGOs and governments can now distribute value and donations to vulnerable people efficiently, cheaply and completely digitally thanks to hiveonline’s blockchain based e-Vouchers. Mozambican peanut farmers suffer from widespread aflatoxin contamination, which causes stunting in children and cancer. Aflatoxin is responsible for over ⅓ of African liver cancers, and because it’s so widespread, key export…
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Hiveonline is in Kenya
Hiveonline and the Association of Women in Agriculture in Kenya (AWAK) have partnered up to explore the digitalisation of Women’s agricultural groups. The pilot project is currently rolling out mycoop.online application to 50 groups in the AWAK network. The platform will provide the groups with a financial identity and access to finance opportunities. Powered by…
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Manage your loans through the myCoop.online app now: How hiveonline enables Cooperative Loan Management
As a customer-centric organisation, our products are under constant development – we prioritise our development based on the needs of our customers. One of the main challenges our customers in rural Africa face is the difficulty in securing loans for their agricultural businesses. To tackle this, we have launched a new feature on our cooperative…
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Mozambique Cashew Harvest 2021
Mozambique Cashew Harvest 2021 is here once again and this marks an exciting month for all partners involved in the Connect Caju II project, as the cashew harvest season begins in Mozambique. All the hard work that the small-holder farmers, cooperative managers and the Mozambican Association for the Promotion of Modern Cooperativism (AMPCM) have put…
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2021 Meaningful Business 100 Winner
We are delighted to announce that Meaningful Business, a global platform for leaders combining profit and purpose, has recognised our CEO Sofie Blakstad of Hiveonline as a Meaningful Business 100 (MB100) leader for 2021. The award received over 500 nominations from 70 countries, following a global nomination process. Curated by an expert panel of 21…
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Two Minute Talk with our Intern – Josephine
hiveonline takes in interns throughout the year, providing them with solid work experience, as well as the chance to develop knowledge and valuable skills, ranging from sales, marketing and product development, amongst others. Our most recent intern, Josephine Krieber, worked with us for 4 months during the summer and shares her experience with us below.…
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hiveonline chosen by MIT Solve as a 2021 Solver team!
Every year, Solve calls for tech-based solutions to global challenges and selects the most promising pitches among thousands of applications. On Friday 17 September, over 70 teams from all over the world gathered virtually with MIT Solve teams and partner organisations, to learn who had been chosen from thousands of entries to be this year’s…