CITAD Holds Students Forum on #OpenNass Campaign
The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has on Thursday 18th May, 2017 organized students forum on #OpenNASS Campaign. #OpenNASS campaign is an advocacy campaign aimed at tackling 3 fundamental issues. Specifically, the campaign aimed at tackling poor understanding of governance and the role of voters, few tools (discussion forums, petitions, town halls etc)
CITAD Marks Girls in ICT Day, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day.
By Hamza Ibrahim Chinade. The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), an ICT focused organization that uses ICT to empower citizens on good governance, sustainable and balanced development has celebrated this year’s Girls in ICT Day and World Telecommunication and Information Society Day respectively, the 2017 Girls in ICT Day was earlier celebrated on
CITAD Trains Journalists on Internet Safety and Security
The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) held the second round of an internet safety and security workshop series in March 2017. The workshop, held at the NISTF Hall, Kano, was attended by 55 people including journalists, civil society activists, teachers and leaders of students for peace clubs supported by CITAD in tertiary institutions.
Group Charges Stakeholders on Hate, Dangerous Speech
By Akpeji Charles. The need for stakeholders in Nigeria to work together to combat the generation and spread of hate and dangerous speech in the country, have become a source of concern to the leadership of Centre for Information Technology and Development The leadership of the organization who recently engaged different ethnic groups, Non-Governmental Organizations
The Resilience of Nigerians?
By Adagbo Onoja. As the Coordinator of the “National Conference on Community Resilience to Boko Haram Insurgencyâ€, Professor Jibrin Ibrahim must have developed a certain intellectual intimacy with the data and dynamics of resilience as to be sensitive to bringing all angles to it and avoid a celebratory discourse of the concept. This is the
Do Governments, Leaders Worry Nigeria is Trapping Her Future?, Conferees Ask
Senior academics, discussants and researchers at the just ended “National Conference on Community Resilience to Boko Haram Insurgency†wondered if governments and leaders in Nigeria worry about certain practices which they equate with trapping the future. By trapping the future, they were referring to practices with potentials to explode in the future. One of such
Nigerian Researchers Unpack Resilience to Boko Haram, Downgrades the Poverty Thesis
Researchers in Nigeria studying the nature and pattern of resilience to Boko Haram insurgency have concluded on the note that breakdown of social cohesion, unemployment, leadership at local levels, crisis of trust between the people and security agencies, poverty and geography were the most decisive factors which shaped resilience to the Boko Haram insurgency in
Taraba State CSOs Trained On Internet Security and Safety
By Hamza Ibrahim Chinade. The Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has organized a capacity building workshop for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Taraba state on Internet Security and Safety issues. The training which took place at Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) secretariat Jalingo was aimed at alerting and equipping members of civil society
CITAD Takes Public Sensitization on Hate and Dangerous Speech to North-East.
By Hamza Ibrahim Chinade. As it widens the scope and strategy of curbing Hate and Dangerous Speech in Nigeria especially on social and conventional media with a view to ending religious and tribal speech, utterances or comments that pose threat to peace and mutual coexistence among adherents of different religions, tribes, affiliations, or groups, the
APPLICATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ABUJA SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR YOUNG WOMEN
This form must be completed and submitted by all prospective participants Introduction The Annual Abuja Sumer Institute (ASI) for Young Women is an Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) and Women’s Rights Advancements and Protection Alternative (WRAPA) in collaboration with the African Studies Program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)