Opening remark by Mal Ahmad

Mal. Ahmad welcomed the members to the meeting

Brief on the aHub discussions forum

Mal. Kamal highlighted the aim of organising the discussion forum and compiling the ideas submitted by the participants. The purpose is to establish a working innovative technology hub toward building productive society. This can be achieved by integrating the students from departments of tertiary institutions especially the sciences/technology field. There are a lot of opportunities locally, nationally and internationally which CITAD has been coming across in which some can be benefited by both CITAD and the youth with realistic ideas.

Review of ideas submitted by the participant

The compiled list of submitted ideas were reviewed by the committee and some selections were made with the following recommendations

1. The participants with clear and potential ideas will be invited for further discussion
2. The participants whose ideas are not well defined or clear will be requested to elaborate more and resend
3. The participants with close or matching idea that are potentials will be invited and may asked to join their work
4. The participants with non-acceptable ideas will be given another chance to think for another one

See Appendix: Table A, Table B, Table C

Matters arising

Ibrahim Nuhu will continue to link up with Akila Tuka for his Biotech Cholesterol Detector project proposal. He will also re-contact the previous contacted people on the are related to the said project.

Attendance:

1. Ahamd Abdullahi Yakasai
2. Kamaluddeen Umar
3. Ibrahin Huhu
4. Abdulhamid Abdullahi
5. Mujahid Turajo
6. Maryam Ado
7. Isyaku Garba

Absent with apology

Kamilu Isah

Appendix

Table A:           List of student potential Ideas to be invited for discussion

Table B:      List of student possible potential Ideas but need to clarify more

Table C:      List of Rejected student ideas

In continuation of the digital skills training in FCT, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) organised a fifteen days digital skills training in FCT with support from ActionaidNigeria in five ICT Centres which are Leleyi Gwari in Kwali Area Council, Gaube in Kuje Area Council, Dakwa and Tungan Ashere in AMAC and Pasepa in Bwari Area Council and was established and implemented by Actionaid and CITAD respectively. 120 young people were beneficiaries of the digital skills training in order to enhance job creation and accountability strategy. The participants, who were young men and women, were trained on digital skills such as Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, Correldraw, use of internet and many more. The focus is to have young people who can support their community to boost the national economy and use the digital skills trained on to seek accountability from their respective leaders. The training started with an opening ceremony, in attendance was the village heads of each community and CITAD facilitators to open the pace for the 2^nd batch training. Issues around Information Communication Technology (ICT), digital inclusion, social marketing, career talk were generally discussed.  Also ICT4KIDS was also established, it’s a group which consist of primary pupils to enable them experience what digital technology is and to build career around the digital world.

In the light of this, Actionaid Nigeria invited Mark Engel Comedy to Pasepa Community to have a chat with the beneficiaries and he made them to understand the power of social media, how he started his career and the journey so far. The beneficiaries were excited and also challenged to utilise the opportunity they have not minding their location.

Some of the participants shared their success stories Patience from One of the ICT stated that “she is in Junior Secondary School and has been taught the theory aspect of computer in school, but now she has a sense of what the computer entail. The application she love most is correl draw, she can design an invitation card and she is glad to be part of the training

Yahaya  from One of the ICT Centres stated that “he graduated from secondary school two years back and since then he was not engaged in anything. When he heard about the training he decided to use the opportunity to participate because his parents couldn’t afford the computer training fee in Zuba, he is glad to be part of the training and hope to get some money to buy a laptop soon so that he can also open a small ict business centre in his community”

Abubakar also from one of the ICT Centre and pupil among the ICT for kids stated “he is Happy  he learnt computer appreciation and he has never touched a computer but with the ICT Centre in his community he was able to touch and use a computer”

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Date: 23^rd October, 2019.
Venue: Conference Hall, Matho Crystal Hotel, Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.

Introduction
Hate speech is a major problem that tends to undermine peaceful co-existence among Nigeria’s diverse communities and threatens the political stability of the country. Hate speech is particularly widely spread in the social media. With increasing reach of social media and its high speed of delivery as well as its relative affordability, the danger that hate speech can easily catalyze large scale violence is real. There have already been instances in which hate speech had already occurred before and during the 2019 general election. And as we approach gubernatorial election here in Bayelsa state, it is instrumental that awareness is intensified to ensure that people desist from hate speech and violence against women particularly in the social media space in order to have peaceful election and continued peace in the country.

About the Project
The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) is implementing Countering Hate Speech Project in Nigeria with support from National Democratic Institute (NDI). The project tracks and counters hate speech and online violence against women with a view to raising awareness as well as campaign and advocacy towards addressing the consequences of the phenomena. Bearing in mind that the population of Nigerians on social media platforms is speedily growing, and the online visibility of conventional media also gives room for discussion, hate speech and online violence against women are sadly becoming rampant. It is against this background that CITAD implements the project.

From Our Observatory (Monitoring Platform)

As the gubernatorial election scheduled for November 16^th here in Bayelsa state continues to approach, we, the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), have monitored and tracked a total number of four hundred and twenty (420) hate speech online violence against women items from different social media platforms-Facebook, Twitter, blogspots and websites of conventional and online newspapers. On social media, the speech items were tracked from groups, pages and individual posts on Facebook, on Twitter from tweets and replies to tweets. On webpages of conventional and online newspapers as well as blogspots, the speech items emerged from the comments sections. The speech items tracked also included those done offline particularly under election category in Bayelsa state. Presented below is the breakdown of the speech items based on category, medium and gender of the perpetrators.

Speech Category

1. Access to resources——————————————–97 (23%)
2. Biafra-agitation related—————————————-16 (4%)
3. Election-related————————————————–64 (15%)
4. Ethnic-based—————————————————–85 (20%)
5. Issues of attention———————————————–40 (10%)
6. Gendered hate speech—————————————–88 (21%)
7. Religious hate speech——————————————18 (4%)
8. Others————————————————————–12 (3%)

Total ————————————————————————420 (100%)

Medium of the Speech

1. Blogs—————————————————————-8 (2%)
2. Facebook———————————————————-239 (57%)
3. Twitter————————————————————–152 (36%)
4. Newspapers——————————————————21 (5%)

Total————————————————————————420 (100%)

Gender of the Perpetrators

1. Male————————————————————–353 (84%)
2. Female———————————————————–43 (10%)
3. Don’t Know——————————————————24 (6%)

Total———————————————————————-420 (100%)

The continuation of aHub discussion for batch B held on 22, October 2019 at CITAD office Kano. The program which its aim is to provide support in terms of space, internet connectivity, mentorship and networking to the best, innovative and willing students of some tertiary institutions of the state so that they can come up with ideas, problems and proper possible solutions through the use of technology.  The nominated students were from FCET Bichi, Yusuf Maitama Sule University and Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education Kumbutso.

Mal Ahmad A. Yakasai, representing the Executive Director, CITAD, welcomed all the participants. He briefed the participants about CITAD which was established in the year 2000 as a non-governmental and non-profit organisation whose aim is to use ICT toward the development of the society. He also advised the participants to use this opportunity to draw the maximum benefit from the aHub as it is the current trend toward developing youth and the nation as a whole.

Mal Ibrahim Nuhu, CITAD program officer, highlighted more on the programs CITAD has been doing including fight against corruption, entrepreneurship, gender based projects, ICT awareness and the recent Digital Livelyhood for young women. He also brief the participants about CITAD, its mission and vision.

Mal. Kamaluddeen Umar, CITAD technical officer, elaborated on the aHub program describing its aim and objectives as providing space for youth aspiring entrepreneurs and technology developers to work unhindered by either power, connectivity or facility challenges; provide continuing support for mentoring services to youth through access to highly accomplished professionals and business people; provide a link between youth solution providers and the market such that such market demands should be a vehicle to drive local productivity, innovation and creativity rather than sourcing such needs from outside; create a space for technology experimentation, innovation and creativity by youth people and support the growth of small scale enterprises through technology and business incubation which would be a vehicle for economic recovery of the region. He also draw the attention of the participants on the numerous opportunities they can get in terms of supports from partner international organisation CITAD is working with. Those international organizations are always loking for youth with innovative idea to support them in making their idea become real.

The session for discussion was open for questions, suggestions, comments and ideas. Yusuf Machido from Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education Kumbutso had urged the participants to show greater level of participation in the aHub program. Nafiu Abubakar, a lecturer from FCET Bichi motivated the participant by citing some example of his innovative ideas he want to make them real and throw the challenge to the student to speak out their mind.

Discussion session went with students welcoming the aHub program and speaking their innovative ideas which were collected and documented for review, selection and further discussion.

The total number of students attended the program is 42, 26 males and 16 females.

On 26, September 2019 CITAD has conducted the Batch A of the aHub discussion forum at its Kano office. The aim of the program was to provide support in terms of space, internet connectivity, mentorship and networking to the best, innovative and willing students of some tertiary institutions of the state so that they can come up with ideas, problems and proper possible solutions through the use of technology.  The invited participants were nominated by the Head of departments of their respective universities which included

Bayero University Kano: Departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Software Engineering, Information Technology.

KUST: Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering

School of Technology, Kano: Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Department of Computer Science, Department of Computer Engineering Technology

Mal Isyaku Garba who represented the Executive Director, CITAD, welcomed the participants and thanked them for accepting the invitation, noting the effort CITAD was doing towards developing the community. He stated that CITAD as a non-profit organisation does not have fund to support the community in monetary terms but was doing its best in supporting them with knowledge, skills and linkages which is the best way of sustainable development. He urged the participants to embrace the program earnestly. He thanked the staff of CITAD for their effort in making the program to happen.

Mal Ibrahim Nuhu, CITAD Program Officer then briefed the participants about CITAD, its mission, vision and area of its activates citing a recent example, the Digital Livelihood for young women.

Mal. Kamaluddeen Umar, CITAD Technical Officer, elaborated on the aHub program describing its aim and objectives as providing space for youth aspiring entrepreneurs and technology developers to work unhindered by either power, connectivity or facility challenges; providing continuing support for mentoring services to youth through access to highly accomplished professionals and business people; provides link between youth solution providers and the market such that market demands should be a vehicle to drive local productivity, innovation and creativity rather than sourcing such needs from outside; create a space for technology experimentation, innovation and creativity by youth people and support the growth of small scale enterprises through technology and business incubation which would be a vehicle for economic recovery of the region.

The session for discussion was opened for questions, suggestions, comments and ideas. Some of the lecturers from the invited institutions who attended the program gave their comments and advices. Mal Muhammad of Computer Science, KUST urged the students not to consider concealing their technology skills as a means of copyright protection rather they should bring it to the right people for developing their idea.

Akila Tuka who was one of the CITAD aHub participants was invited and spoke to the participants on the project he was working on which is developing an Electrochemical Biosensor for Blood Cholesterol Analysis.

Some of the students discussed their technological ideas that if given chance will bring certain solution and opportunities. They were asked to write and send their ideas to CITAD for further review.

The total number of students attended the program is 40, 33 males and 7 females. This includes some from Federal University Dutse.

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Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD), a non-governmental organization has in Bauchi commenced the training of young women and girls in Digital livelihood to acquire information communication technology (ICT) knowledge.

CITAD Program Manager, Mrs. Maryam Haruna said at the orientation for the digital livelihood programme Monday in Jama’are LGA of the state that participants are being trained on ICT knowledge for business transactions.

She explained that with the World becoming a global village in the face of modern technology innovations, young women are expected to play a vital role in the quest for embracing digital innovations.

“Many women who have acquired skills in the initial phase of this programme have excelled in their businesses. Some of them are even giving the same training to other women and girls so that they can also succeed”, Maryam stated.

The objective of the training, she further explained, is to produce more young women in entrepreneurship in Northern Nigeria, as well as eradicate poverty in young women and girls.

The program officer added, “We also encourage the beneficiaries to register their businesses with Corporate Affairs Commission, a federal government agency responsible for the registration of business outfits”.

“For those who have no business can also form a business name so that they can start up a small scale enterprise to enable them become self-reliant, because of the opportunities for loans scheme that can reach them”.

Maryam outlined the skills in which young women and girls would be trained to include graphic Designs – where they would also learn posters, stickers, banners, invitation cards and so on, film and video editing, photography and info-graphic.

According to her, young women and girls need to be empowered, especially through the utilization of digital knowledge so that they can achieve self-reliance in different business areas such food production, decoration, photography, and film and video editing.

She then called on young women to make good use of the 3 weeks training and rise to the challenge of entrepreneurial development in order to attain the skills of digital livelihood, for them to become self-reliant and gainfully employed.

The Director of Planning in the Ministry of Budget & Economic Planning, Malam Sunusi Ibrahim had in a remark, urged the participants to have passion for the training because it’s really a stepping stone for them to prosper.

Responding on behalf of the participants, Miss Habiba Usman commended the efforts of CITAD for bringing ICT training to their doorsteps.

Participants therefore pledged to give maximum attention during the training, and to also use the training to become self-reliance  and employers of others in not only the community, but the state at large.

An NGO, Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has commenced training of young women and girls in digital livelihood to acquire information and communication Technology (ICT) knowledge of business in Jamma’are Local Government Area of the state

Mrs Mayryam Haruna, Programme Manager CITAD while speakinge at the orientation for the Digital Livelihood Programme for Young Women and Girls in Jamma’are on Monday

Mrs. Haruna said with the world becoming a global village in the face of modern technological innovations, the young women were expected to play a vital role in the quest for embracing digital innovations.

“Many women who have acquired skills in the initial phase of this program have excelled in their businesses. Some of them are even giving the same training to other women and girls so they can also succeed,” she said.

According to her, the objective of the training is to produce more young women entrepreneurs in northern Nigerian, as well as a beginning of eradicating poverty in northern young women and girls.

Mrs Haruna said “We also encourage the beneficiaries to register their businesses with Corporate Affairs Commission.

“For those who have no businesses, they can also form a business name so that they can start up a small scale enterprise so that they can be self reliant. Because of the opportunities for loan schemes can reach them,” she said.

The programme manager said the young women and girls would be trained on the programmes that include, graphics design, where they would learn posters, stickers, banners, invitation cards and so on. Film and video editing and photography, infographic among others.

She said women and girls need to be empowered especially through the utilization of digital knowledge so that they can achieve self reliance in different business areas such as food production, decoration, photography, and film and video editing.

She called on young women to make good use of the 3 weeks training and rise to the challenge of entrepreneurial development in order to attain the skills of digital livelihood, for them to become self-reliant and gainfully employed.

In his remarks, . Malam Sunusi Ibrahim , Director Planning. Ministry of Budget and Planning urged the participants to have passion for the training because it’s really a stepping stone for them to prosper.

“You should be a vocational trainer, if possible, for the young women in their neighborhood,” he said

Responding on behalf of the participants, Miss Habiba Usman and Hauwa Yakubu commended the effort of CITAD for bringing ICT training to their doorstep.

They pledged to give their maximum attention during the training and also make good use of the training to become self-reliant and employers of others in the state not only the community.

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The center for information technology and development CITAD, has organized student creativity competition among Junior and Senior secondary school in Jama’are local government.
Malam Ahmad Yakasai of CITAD while speaking at the one day competition with a title Marai on the Marble in Jammare recently,” He said this is part of CITAD effort of promoting educational development and revival of reading culture in the state.
According to him, Several junior and senior secondary schools took part in the competition that shows that the number of participating schools has increased over the last year’s event.
He said the competition was categories into four which comprises, Debate,Quiz Poem/ poetry and Story telling.
“Seven schools participated in all of the events and won different prizes.
“The participating schools Government Arabic College includes,Government Day Secondary School Jama’are, Hassan Muhammad Senior secondary school jama’are, Wabi Academy,M C Abubakar Junior secondary school Jamaare, Ahmad Mohammad Wabi Junior Secondary School Jama’ar and Jibwis Science,” he said
Yakasai however commended the schools, teachers and the students for their devotion and commitment during competition, urged the schools to keep the tempo of commeptition as it will go a long way in promoting creativity among students.
In his remark, the chairman of the competition who is also the education secretary of Jama’are Local Education Authority Mal. Zakariyya Jibril stated that CITAD has always engaged in promoting and reviving of educational development in jama’are through creating extracurricular activities in Jamaare.
Jibril applauded CITAD for the wonderful and remarkable effort of promoting educational development in jama’are.
The Education Secretary urged other NGOs and Philanthropist to emulate CITAD in development of educational and creativity among students.
Our correspondent reports that at the end of competition of Seven schools that participated Jibwis Science Emerged 1st and Wabi academy 2nd GDSS Hassan Muhammad occupied the 3rd position.
The winners left with consulation gift Television, Bycles, handsets, jam forms as well as radio sets.

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The North East has the worse education indices in the country. It has the lowest enrollment rates, the lowest completion rates and yet the worse teacher-student ratio.  The region’s performance in the NECO and WASC as well as JAMB has been at the bottom of the national ranking. Consequently, it has the least number of admissions to tertiary institutions. By the same token, it has the least number of graduates per population in the country.

This poor educational performance is partly responsible for also the high youth unemployment situation in the region. It is also implicated in the worse poverty incidence in the country.

Both unemployment and poverty are key factors in the growth and flourishing of the Boko Haram Insurgency which has devastated the region, making the situation worse. Social infrastructure such as schools, markets, factories, etc have been destroyed. As a result, more youth have been thrown out of employment. Many people have lost their means of livelihood.  Both of these have increased poverty and unemployment. School enrollment has further deteriorated due to long close of schools, destruction of education facilities and the killings of both teachers and students by the insurgents. The abduction of students, particularly the female student of Chibok, has brought a set back in girl child education as both parents and children fear about more abductions.

Given this,it is imperative that a multi-pronged strategy is needed to reboot and accelerate the educational progress and development of the region. As part of this effort, CITAD in collaboration with  Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola (MAUTECH)  is organizing the first North East Books and Education Conference and Exhibition (NEBECE).

Goal

Contribute to reviving education in the region

Objectives

1. Provide a platform for stakeholders to deliberate and strategize on revamping education in the region
2. Raise awareness on reviving reading culture which is critical to education progress
3. To provide an opportunity for states governments in the region to explain to donor organizations the specific problems they have in addressing education issues
4. Promote book trade and publishing in the region as part of the effort to revive education
5. Harvest ideas on addressing the myriad of problems of education in the north east

Forms and Format

The North East Books and Education Conference and Exhibition (NEBECE) will hold for three days and will consist of the following complimentary events and activities:

1. Conference on Education
2. Book and other educational products Exhibition
3. Literary Events
4. Student Creativity Competition

Conference Theme

The theme of the conference is Education in the Northeast in the Context of Reconstruction, Rebuilding and Resettlement in the Region

Conference Sub-themes

The sub-themes of the conference:

1. The State of Education Infrastructure in the North East
2. Tertiary Education and Pipelining in the North East
3. Tackling the Problems of Basic Education in the North East
4. Girl Child Education in the Context of Post Insurgency
5. The Place and Role of Vocational and Entrepreneurship Education in Rebuilding of the North East
6. Teacher Production Capacity in the North East
7. Gender, Education and Cultural Issues in the North East
8. Understanding and Overcoming Poor Performance of North East States in National Examinations in the North East
9. Impact of Insurgency on Education in the North East
10. The Digital Divide and the Education Sector in the North East
11. The Place of Religion in Education in the North East
12. Religious Education and Religious Education institutions in the North East

Conference Structure

The conference will consist of plenary, parallel sessions and flying shop sessions. A side of the Opening session, there would be five other plenary sessions, two on each date. Together these plenary sessions will allow the lead paper in each sub themes be presented at the plenary while other papers would feature at the parallel panels.The flying shopping sessions will have state and other agencies show case their work. However, instead of them making presentation to at either panel or plenary session each showcase presenters will stay in one place and a small group of say 10-15 at the time would be his/her shop and listen to the presentation for 10 minutes and move to the next showcase and each group will go round as many showcase stands as possible.

Key Note

Mal Adamu Adamu, Ministry of Education

Lead Presentation

It is proposed that lead presentations would come from the following:

1. Garba D. Azare, Teacher Production Capacity in the North East
2. Mr. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi (NITDA), The Digital Divide in the Northeast and its Implications to the Education Progress on the Region
3. H. Bobboi, UBEC Contribution to Revamping Education in the North East
4. Sadiqque Abubakar, The Poor Performance of the Northeast in National Examinations: Evidence from NECO
5. Prof Abubakar A. Rasheed, The State of Tertiary Education in the North West
6. Sulaiman Elias Bogoro: An Overview of Tetfund Intervention in the North East
7. M. Kazaure, The Challenge of Technical and Vocational Education in the North East
8. Asmau Joda: Addressing Girl Child  Education in the North East
9. Saudatu Mahdi : Mainstreaming Gender Issues in Transforming Education in the North East
10. Impact of Conflict in the Education Sector in the Northeast by Prof Rabiu Mohammad
11. Can we create our own Silicon Valley in the Northeast?  Kole Shettima
12. Politics and Education Development in the Northeast  by Prof Jibrin Ibrahim
13. Reviving Public Libraries in the Northeast by Dr.  Musa Auyo
14. How to Address Almajiranci in the Northeast
15. Addressing Child Health as Key to Enhancing Educational Performance by Hussaini Abdu

Participants

1. Northeast Development Commission
2. All ministries of Education of the states of the North east
3. Donor organizations and international development partners
4. SUBEB from all the six states of the North East
5. Universities in the North East region
6. State and national legislators
7. Books Publishers across the country
8. Major bookshops and booksellers
9. Civil society organizations
10. Community Organizations
11. Professional Associations
12. Students
13. Media organizations

Organizing Partners

1. Northeast Development Commission (NEDC)
2. Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola
3. Channel Television (media partners)
4. Peace Air (Travels partners)
5. Daily Trust (print media)

Supporting Organizations

1. Federal Ministry of Education
2. Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund)
3. National Teachers Institution (NTI)
4. Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC)
5. National Technology Development Agency (NITDA)
6. All state governments in the North East
7. National Universities Commission (NUC)
8. USAID
9. MacArthur Foundation
10. Action Aid International (Nigeria)

Host State

Adamawa State

Participation

Members of the public, especially education policy makers, scholars and policy administrators, publishers, books distributors and others are cordially invited to participate. For more information contact the Organizing Chairman, Committee either by phone (08064867312) or by email (nebece@citad.org). You can also visit the conference site (www.nebece.ng).

The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) in partnership with the Modibbo Adamawa University of Technology, Yola is, as part of the first North East Books and Education Conference and Exhibition (NEBECE), organizing a three-day the Northeast Books and ICT Exhibition. The objectives of the exhibition are:

1. Promote book and learning instruction trade and publishing in the region as part of the effort to revive education
2. Bring markets and users of ICT tools together
3. Raise awareness on reviving reading culture which is critical to education progress
4. Stimulate the culture of publishing in the region

Participants at the both the exhibition and conference include:

1. Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI)
2. All ministries of Education of the states of the North east
3. Donor organizations and international development partners
4. SUBEB from all the six states of the North East
5. Universities in the North East region
6. Libraries
7. State and national legislators
8. Books Publishers across the country
9. Major bookshops and booksellers

• ICT equipment manufacturers and markets
• ICT Solution Providers
• Civil society organizations
• Community Organizations
• Professional Associations
• Students
• Media organizations

Exhibition Dates: 20-22, November, 2019

Exhibition Site: Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, Adamawa State

Exhibition Stand Fee: Twenty Thousand Naira (N20, 000.00) per stand

Registration

All interested publishers, ICT companies, books distributors, booksellers, bookshops, libraries, books collectors, etc are invited to register at online at www.nebece.ng . For more information, contact the Secretary, Exhibition Committee, either phone (08064867312) or by email (nebece@citad.org).