Last year, Facebook opened its first office in Lagos. This office provided Facebook with a hub on the continent with a team of engineers. The office is also home to several other teams across Facebook – Sales, Partnerships, Policy and Communications. Sabee app is one of the first products to emerge from this Nigerian office. Sabee is tied to Facebook’s larger strategy of focusing more on serving the African continent, starting with Nigeria.
The app, Sabee, which means “to know” in Nigerian Pidgin is built entirely for Nigerians. It aims to connect learners and educators in online communities to make educational opportunities more accessible. The rationale for the app was born out of the desire to fulfil necessity for contact-less education after the impact of the pandemic. Also due to the evolving educational digital sphere that is expected to bring inexhaustible value and significant boost in the educational technology space. In addition Sabee was born due to the complex factors that comes with the ratio of learners to educators around the country.
Facebook Product Lead Emeka Okafor, had this to say “There are 50 million learners, but only 2 million educators in Nigeria. With this small, early test, we’re hoping to understand how we can help educators build communities that make education available to everyone. We look forward to learning with our early testers, and deciding what to do from there.”
Sabee app is currently in its early alpha testing phase with fewer than 100 testers who are under NDA agreements with Facebook. The educational app is not available to anyone else outside the testers group for now, but the company hopes to scale Sabee to the next stage before the end of the year. Although it went public on the Google Play Store briefly, within that short time it didn’t manage to rank on any charts in the store. Facebook aims for the educational app to be fully functional and accessible with internet connectivity that is as low as 2G. This expands service to a wide group of people that are often left behind by technology. Congratulations are in order for the great things happening at Facebook, it also recently became the 5th US company to hit the $1tr market cap milestone.
Olagoke Ajibola is a creative writer and content producer with an eye for details and excellence. He has a demonstrated history of telling stories for TV, Film and Online. Aside from being fascinated by the power of imagination, his other interest are travel, sport, reading and meeting people.
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
