SemaBOX Africa has released YEBO, a new file-sharing platform with end-to-end encryption, which aims to offer African creators, filmmakers, and businesses the freedom of deciding the way their digital content is shared and secured.
Leveraging Mozilla’s open-source technology as a base, YEBO has been modified to reflect the stories, as well as the challenges, of the African digital storytellers and the professionals. The software allows one to upload and share video, audio, and other types of files instantly via email, WhatsApp, or QR code—with the security as well as the privacy of a user being the highest.
These are the commitments that YEBO makes to the users: Encryption of all data transfers, and extension of data privacy rights to the users. In an emphatic statement of content sovereignty, SemaBOX pointed out that files exchanged through YEBO are not employed for AI model training, thus preventing creators from being the victims of unauthorized data exploitation. Besides setting a password, users can also set the number of downloads or the expiration date to have more control over the files.
“We’re bringing back full ownership and control to African creators,” said the SemaBOX Africa team. “For too long, we’ve relied on global platforms that don’t prioritize our privacy or our intellectual property. YEBO changes that, it’s secure, simple, and built for us.”
YEBO is currently allowing transfers of up to 2.5GB for free with the next step being to open accounts for paid users who will be able to upload files of larger sizes and have access to other functionalities.
By developing such a platform that takes into account and is based on the African needs and the African world, SemaBOX Africa is not only giving the creators the freedom to share their works safely and without restrictions but also liberates them completely from those platforms that, instead of giving data ownership, merely provide data access.
Using YEBO, African artists are no longer impeded from the free, easy, and quick sharing of high-quality files of their works; be it films, music, or documents. It’s indeed a landmark step towards the realization of digital freedom and data sovereignty for the entire continent.