Enhancing Advocacy using Social Media
Advocacy is only about delivering your messages to the targets of your advocacy but also involves social mobilization to get others to support your cause and reinforce your advocacy messages. Social media provides tools to enhance the effectiveness of your advocacy, making it possible to deliver your messages and supporting documents easily and cheaply. Use […]
Enhancing capacity of CSOs in the use of Social Media
By Kabiru Saidu Dakata CITAD in partnership with SAVI organized a two-day workshop for CSOs on the use of Social media for Advocacy held on 2ND and 3rd May, 2013 at Tahir Guest Palace Hotel, Kano. The objective of the workshop was to build the capacity of CSOs in the use of social media to […]
ICT TRAINING FOR EXAMINATION AND ADMISSION OFFICERS OF JIGAWA STATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS
The purpose of ICT in education is not only to familiarize students with the use and working of computer, and related social and ethical issues but also to enhance the capacity of teachers in learning processes. Teachers can use it to aid their teaching, while administrators can use them for day to day running and […]
WORKSHOP ON ICTS FOR LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES
WORKSHOP ON ICTS FOR LEGISLATIVE PURPOSES Like in other spheres, ICTs are important in legislative work. tHis was why the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) and State Accountability and Voice Initiative (SAVI), Jigawa State Office  partnered to deliver workshop on ICTs in Legislative Work for support staff of the Jigawa State House of […]
ICT Integration into the Kano State Schools Curriculum
ICT Integration into the Kano State Schools Curriculum By BASHIR A. MUZAKKARI Senior Special Assistant on ICT to the Executive Governor of Kano State Introduction ICT is technology that supports activities involving information. Such activities include gathering, processing, storing and presenting data. Increasingly these activities also involve collaboration and communication.  Hence IT has become ICT: […]
REPORT OF THE JIGAWA STATE INTER-SECONDARY SCHOOLS ICT QUIZ
REPORT OF THE JIGAWA STATE INTER-SECONDARY SCHOOLS ICT QUIZ, 1ST DECEMBER, 2012. Jigawa state is one of the states benefiting from CITAD annual ICT quiz. This year`s quiz marked the 5th round in Jigawa after its inception in 2003. OBJECTIVES OF THE QUIZ Like in other states where similar event takes place annually, the major […]
INTER SECONDARY SCHOOL ENTREPRENEURSHIP QUIZ COMPETITION
By Sagir Ado On 17th November, 2012, the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has organized an entrepreneurship inter secondary school quiz competition. The quiz competition was among the series of activities organized by the Centre to celebrate this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Week which comes up from the 14-20, November 2012. The Global Entrepreneurship […]
CITAD CONDUCTS THIRD ICT QUIZ FOR BAUCHI STATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS
CITAD CONDUCTS THIRD ICT QUIZ FOR BAUCHI STATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS Â By Ibrahim Mohammed Aboki, CITAD Bauchi In its effort to promote ICT knowledge among the secondary school students, the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has, for the third time, conducted the ICT quiz competition for Bauchi State Secondary Schools on Saturday 8th […]
ICTS IN SCHOOLS WORKSHOP
ICTS IN SCHOOLS WORKSHOP Among the strategies contained in the Jigawa State ICTs in Education Policy is “training of teachers and school administrators on the use of ICTsâ€. To rollout the implementation of this strategy, the Jigawa State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology approached CITAD to design and organize a sensitization workshop for principals […]
QUARTERLY LECTURE ON ICTS FOR DEVELOPMENT
CITAD in collaboration with FCE (TECH) BICHI has today (17/10/2012) conducted a quarterly lecture on ICTs for Development. It was held at the Auditorium Hall of the college. The theme for the lecture was “ICTs, Teachers and Teaching: The linkages and Synergiesâ€. The guest speaker was Prof U.G. Danbatta. Those in attendance include the Provost […]
