African-led · Verified · Independent
Making projects legible.
SabiVerse is a transparency platform for resource and engineering projects in Africa: verified data, independent journalism and films in local voices.
Projects across the continent are delayed by mistrust that grows from missing information, not by technical failure. When people can check what is being built near them, and hear it explained in their own frame, rumour loses its hold. Sabi means “to know”. That is the whole idea.
Read why SabiVerse exists →§ 01Five layers, one thesis
Social license through transparency and an African voice.
01 · Transparency
Database
“What is happening”
02 · Accountability
Journalism
“Who it affects, and is it fair”
03 · Translation
Film
“Explained in a local frame”
04 · Institutions
Education
“Training the next generation of engineers”
05 · Permanence
Symbolic infrastructure
“This community's science is recognised”
§ 02The team
A Nigerian, Ghanaian and Russian team at Saint Petersburg universities, combining journalism, engineering and film.
Elisha EnefuProject leadITMO University
Savely MatveychukPlatform, database & searchPeter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic
Enoch LarbiFilm, visual identity & content designITMO University
Samuel OnahJournalism methodology & verificationETU “LETI”
Elisha OludipeGlobal partnershipsFUT Nigeria
SDG 9Industry, innovation & infrastructure
SDG 16Peace, justice & strong institutions
SDG 17Partnerships for the goals