About us

CENTRE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT

CITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for 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 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 treads, 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.

It has offices located in Kano state, Abuja, Dutse Jigawa State, Bauchi, Jamaare, and Itas as well as two outreach units located in Gombe and Yobe States.

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 programmes of the organization as well as provides management and administrative functions. It has 32 full time staff, 8 part time and over 6 volunteers spread across the three offices of the organization.

Vision is: A knowledge-based democratic and self-reliant society.

Mission is to empower citizens for a just and knowledge-base society that is anchored on sustainable and balance development using ICT, Capacity Development, Advocacy, Research and Partnership.

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INFO@CITAD.ORG

Contact us via this email

+2348153584147

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Our Offices Address

Kano Office

Bauchi Office

Abuja Office

Itas Office