JOINT COMMUNIQUÉ : Awareness to End Luggage Tag Swapping to Aid Drug Trafficking at Nigerian Airports by Amnesty International Nigeria and Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), Abuja, 30 September 2025.
Awareness to End Luggage Tag Swapping to Aid Drug Trafficking at Nigerian Airports by Amnesty International Nigeria and Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), Abuja, 30 September 2025. BACKGROUND In recent years, Nigeria has witnessed a disturbing trend of innocent travelers being implicated in drug trafficking due to the criminal act of luggage mismanagement […]
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE 2025 KANO SOCIAL INFLUENCERS SUMMIT ORGANIZED BY THE CENTRE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT (CITAD) HELD AT KHALIFA ISYAKU RABI’U UNIVERSITY, KANO (KHAIRUN)
The 6th Kano Social Influencers Summit (KANSIS25), organized by the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), was held at Khalifa Isyaku Rabiu University (KHAIRUN), Kano, from 22nd to 23rd October, 2025 with the theme “Toward a More Inclusive Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI)” the Summit attracted over 1,200 participants including academics, ICT experts, policymakers, […]
COMMUNIQUE DEVELOPED AT THE END OF THE 2024 WOMEN INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM (WIGF2024) ORGANIZED BY THE CENTRE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT (CITAD) IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NIGERIA INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM (NIFG) HELD ON THE 15 TH OCTOBER, 2024 VIRTUALY
INTRODUCTION On the 15 th of October, 2024 the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in partnership with Nigeria Internet Governance Forum held the 6 edition of the Women Internet Governance Forum (WIGF). WIGF was part of the 2024 Internet Governance Forum yearly events. The theme for this year was Promoting a Gender-Sensitive Internet: […]
5th Kano Social Influencers Summit: What You Need To Know, Its Impact
Communique of 5th Kano Social Influencers Summit organized by Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) held on 18th to 19th of September, 2024, at Grand Central Hotel, Kano, Nigeria 1:01: Preamble: The 5th Kano Social Influencers Summit (KANSIS24) with the theme ‘Artificial Intelligence in Election and Governance: Between the Potentials for Enhancement of Processes […]
CITAD’s 5th Kano Social Influencers Summit Calls for Ethical AI Deployment
By Mustapha Salisu The 5th Kano Social Influencers Summit (KANSIS24), organized by the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), held from September 18-19, 2024, in Kano, concluded with key observations and recommendations on the ethical deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in elections and governance. CITAD 5th KANSIS this year gathered over 1,000 participants, including national […]
#KANSIS23: Participants Call For Passage Of Digital Rights And Freedom Bill In Nigeria
THE TWO-DAY Kano Social Influencers Summit (KANSIS) 2023, organised by the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), ended with participants calling for the protection of their digital rights. In a communique signed by Haruna Adamu Hadejia from CITAD, Salisu M. Indabawa from Centre for Youth Entrepreneurship and Development Initiative (CEYEDI) and Wumi Simon of […]
Communiqué Issued at the end of a Two Days Training Workshop for COVID-19 Vaccine Champions in Kano state
Preamble The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) with support from MacArthur Foundation organized a two-day training workshop for eighteen COVID-19 Vaccine Champions selected from Plateau, Bauchi, Borno, Kogi, Kaduna and Kano states. The training was held on 13 th and 14 th of December, 2021 in Kano state. The training was organized to […]
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A ONE-DAY CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON GENDER COMMUNITY NETWORKS CONVENED BY CENTRE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT (CITAD)
The Centre for Information technology and development (CITAD) as part of its project on Supporting Community-led Approaches to Addressing the Digital Divide in Nigeria which is part of larger project on community networks coordinated globally by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and supported by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK Government, […]
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A TWO-DAY KANO SOCIAL INFLUENCERS SUMMIT (KANSIS) 2021, HELD AT THE DIGITAL BRIDGE INSTITUTE (DBI), KANO, OCTOBER 27 –28, 2021
The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in partnership with the McArthur Foundation, Arewa Radio, Nigeria Internet Regulation Association (NIRA), Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), and the Facebook organized a two-day Social Influencers Summit. The summit (KANSIS) was a social clinic where participants learn, interrogated and asked questions to seek answers that would influence good […]
COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF A ONE-DAY CIVIL SOCIETY CONSULTATIVE MEETING ON COMMUNITY NETWORKS CONVENED BY CENTRE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT (CITAD)
The Centre for Information technology and development (CITAD) as part of its project on Supporting Community-led Approaches to Addressing the Digital Divide in Nigeria which is part of larger project on community networks coordinated globally by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) with support from the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) through […]