CITAD to train traders on ICT free
By MUH’D HAMISU ABDULLAHI
IN a training programme which aimed at providing user skills and internet application, the Center for Information Technology and Development (CITAD)is training traders on the use of computer in Kano state free.
The training commenced on Friday, June 19, this year and will be conducted three times a week in the evenings.
A press release issued to Sunday Triumph, reveals that already 20 members of Kantin Kwari Market Traders Association have since started a one-month training under the scheme.
In addition, the statement said, members of the state branch of the National Association of Small-Scale Industrialists (NASSI) would also benefit from the scheme.
At the opening ceremony of the event, the executive director of CITAD, Malam Y.Z. Ya’u, told the participants that the decision to train the traders by his organisation was taken following an assessment among the traders who expressed desire to acquire ICT skills in order to leverage the potentials of these technologies in transforming their businesses.
According to him, the training was being organised under the Unlimited Potentials Programme, a corporate social responsibility programme supported by Microsoft Nigeria.
Already, 12 journalists in Kano have completed training on on-line tools under the scheme and 12 more in Jigawa state will enroll by next month.
The programme, he said, had also supported youth training in Kano, Jigawa and Zamfara states under CITAD.
In a message read on her behalf during the event, Citizenship Manager of Microsoft Nigeria, Hajiya Jummai Umar - Ajijola, expressed happiness that traders in Kano, the commercial nerve center of Northern Nigeria, were embracing ICT skills.
She said her organisation was willing and ready to partner with the traders to promote knowledge-based training.
According to her, Unlimited Potentials, is a scheme aimed at driving technology into communities to empower them, transform their lives and businesses.
Alhaji Sabo M. Kabara, a participant, on behalf of other participants, thanked both CITAD and Microsoft for extending the opportunity to them, reiterating that they would make the best use of the opportunity, hoping that more members of the association would be trained under the programme.