By Aluta News
Dec. 31, 2021
Managing Director, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Alhaji Kashifu Abdullahi-Inuwa, says the agency trained more than120,000 Nigerians on digital literacy in 2021.
Abdullahi-Inuwa disclosed this while addressing newsmen at a three-day capacity-building workshop on digital journalism and fact-checking at PRNigeria Centre, on Friday in Kano.
According to him, digital journalism is part of digital literacy and transformation, which entails knowledge.
This, he said, would help in filtering fake news and disseminating the good ones to citizens,” he said.
The managing director added that the training had become imperative in order to enable media practitioners use better means of disseminating news.
“We aim to achieve 95 per cent digital literacy in Nigeria by 2030,” he said.
Abdullahi-Inuwa described cyber security as one of the strategy pillars under strategic roadmap and action, adding it was more about social engineering.
“We do lots of awareness to enable people know the “dos and don’ts of social media. So, this awareness will help them protect their own confidential information”, he said.
Abdullahi-Inuwa further explained that NITDA had computer centres proactively protecting digital space.
He added that during the 2020 EndSARS protests, the agency helped so many MDAs to protect their digital spaces.
NAN