NITDA Boss, Kashifu Abdullahi, Receives NADIR/IMPR ICT Personality of the Year Award
By Kabir Akintayo
The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahix has been honoured with the “ICT Personality of the Year Award 2021.”
Inuwa was honoured on Friday by the Network of Advocates of Digital Reporting (NADIR) in conjunction with the Image Merchants Promotion Ltd (IMPR) – Publishers of PrNigeria, Economic Confidential, Politics Digest, Tech Digest and other titles.
The NITDA boss was presented with the award at the end of a 3-day workshop on “Digital Journalism, Media Ethics and Responsible Reporting” in Kano State.
According to the citation read at the award ceremony, “Kashifu is an achiever par excellence who is given with technology information, and the first Chartered CISCO Internet Engineer (CCIE) in the public service of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“Under his watch, NITDA has achieved significant impact through the launch of programmes such as the Nigeria Digital Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Startup Policy (NDIESP), NITDA Digital Innovation Entrepreneurship Centre, and the state-of-the-art Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR) among others.
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“NITDA has supported the establishment several IT hubs, innovation and incubation parks, IT community centres and IT capacity-building centres in higher institutions of learning, as well as in unserved and under-served communities across the country.
“In addition, the agency organized capacity building and entrepreneurship training programmes for thousands of artisans, Women, IT centres managers across the country. It also organized innovation contests such as Future-Hack, where participants receive funding and mentorship to develop marketable products and services.
“NITDA programmes have created employment for thousands of youth by supported hundreds of start-ups, IT hubs and ecosystem through Nigeria ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship Vision (NIIEV). It also created Virtual Startup Clinic, for young people to meet with mentors, successful entrepreneurs, investors, industry specialists, business consultants and hub operators.
The National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture (NAVSA) and Massive Online Open Courses initiatives are two flagship projects of NITDA to transform the critical sectors of agricultural and tertiary education, as well as delivery of digital skills and literacy to Nigerians with distributions computers in promoting digital literacy. Through the clearance of IT projects of MDAs, NITDA has continued to save billions of Naira for the economy.
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