This, ITRealms gathered that African partners of Facebook
were part of the participants in the two days of new products, tools,
interactive demos and speakers to help developers build, grow and monetize
their apps.
ITRealms reports that Facebook, with its global reach and
scale included African developers in its beta testing programme for the launch of
new global products and features as it increases presence and deepening partnerships
on the continent.
Also, ITRealms reports that over 70 per cent of Facebook’s
developer partners are located outside the United States and about a third of
the attendees at F8 joined us from abroad.
“We believe that local entrepreneurs and developers will be
the ones to meet the needs of their immediate community, and we are working
with developers to know how we can support them in doing so,” says Emeka
Afigbo, Strategic Product Partnerships Manager at Facebook.
At Facebook, he said, they listen to developer partners in
Africa, and has strong showing for F8 is a reflection of this commitment to
doing more with partners across the continent to help them build products and
businesses.
African developers who partnered with Facebook to launch
products at F8 include Afrinolly (Entertainment, Nigeria), GumTree South Africa
(Classifieds, South Africa),vZikoko (Entertainment, Nigeria), Jobberman (Jobs,
Nigeria/Ghana), The Net (Entertainment, Nigeria) and My Music (Media, Nigeria).
In addition, this year Facebook brought F8 to developers
around the world through F8 Meetups hosted with tech hubs around the world. In
Africa, we hosted F8 Meetups in Nairobi, Lagos, Cape Town and Morocco where
participants watched the sessions in San Francisco.
Two developer teams from Malawi won a developer challenge
supported by mobile operator TNM Malawi and Facebook, and were featured on F8's
international stage. Maternitech, founded by three 22-year olds – Walter Moyo,
Thandie Magasa, and Daniel Mvalo, provides educational information aimed at
combating Malawi's high under-18 pregnancy rate. The team was featured in an
international livestream interview.
Talk To Me, an app created by 10-year old Panashe Jere, who
learned to code at a Coding for Kids session at Malawi Hub. This app converts
input text into voice so children always have someone to talk to. Both teams
were congratulated by Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg personally for their
achievements.
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