Harnessing Technology for Good Governance, Empowerment, and Peaceful Coexistence
CITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for the development and promotion of good governance. It was established first as a single project (Computer Literacy Project) in 1996 but was expanded in 2000 to include other projects. Now it incorporates six different thematic units.
CITAD sees technology as a tool to promote sustainable development, good government and peaceful coexistence. It uses ICT to empower youth and women through access to information, skills and online mentoring opportunities. It utilises such platforms such as social networking, web-to-text interface and tools such as Google Alert to provide information that would promote peaceful coexistence. It uses Google alerts to source information about trends of discussion in various platforms, sites and online discussion lists and sites with a view to understanding trends, attitudes and positions such that it can develop appropriate responses to those that are similarly disseminated to either reinforce positive trends or counter and neutralize negative ones.
The organization has a board of Trustees consisting of four people, a Governing Board of 8 people that is responsible for policy making including approval of annual budget as well as recruitment of senior staff. A management team headed by the Executive Director implements the organization’s programs and provides management and administrative functions.
