IT access: We’ve covered over 400 LGAs – NITDA

To ensure people in rural areas across Nigeria access and make maximum use of information technology services, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) said it has covered over 400 local government areas out of the country’s 774 councils. So far, NITDA also said it has initiated in rural areas  intervention projects such as Community […]

To ensure people in rural areas across Nigeria access and make maximum use of information technology services, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) said it has covered over 400 local government areas out of the country’s 774 councils.
So far, NITDA also said it has initiated in rural areas  intervention projects such as Community Access Centres, which enables the agency to provide computers, broad band, internet services to the communities until  the projects are sustained and appreciated by the rural communities.
Also, there is the Knowledge Access Centres through which established computer centres are provided with internet services so that pupils and students in such rural areas are exposed to information technology services right from their infancy.
The Acting Director, Standards, Guidelines and Regulations Department of NITDA, Barrister Lazarus Ikoti, made this known while briefing newsmen shortly after the two days stakeholders’ workshop for heads of IT units of Federal Parastatals held at the Nike Lake Resort Hotel, Enugu. The aim of the meeting was for stakeholders to adopt the regulatory framework for the implementation of the Control Objectives for Information Technology and Related Technologies (COBIT) version which was introduced and adopted in Nigeria as a national framework of IT standards since December 4, 2013 under the section 6 of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Act of 2007, Daily Trust learnt.