Dr. (Mrs.) Wunmi Hassan, PhD
President/CEO
High Tech Centre for Nigerian Women and Youths
Non-Governmental Organisation)
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At Global Distant Learning Institute
Opposite Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja.
2nd - 4th September, 2014
reachaoh@yahoo.co.uk
OUTLINE
 Preamble
 Brief on High Tech Centre for Nigerian Women and
Youths –NGO
 Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
 ICT and the Global Community
 Overview of the Applications of ICT
 The role of ICTs in the Development of Rural
Communities
 Concluding Remarks
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Our Nigeria at a Glance
Nigeria
Population Total 160,000,000(2009 est.)
Land area: 923,768 sq Km (356,669 sq
Mi)
 GDP per capita $2,199
Pop. Density 82.2 per/km
Pop. Growth Rate:4.8%
Literacy Rate
69%
Rural Pop.
68%
Urban Pop.
32%
Life expectancy: 47
Monetary unit:
Naira
Language:
English
Ethnicity/race:
heterogeneous
Religion
Christian
45%
Muslims
45%
Others
10%
E-readiness Ranking
2007 – 3.92
2008 – 4.25
2009 – 3.89
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Preamble
The driving force tool for most developmental
agenda such as the MDGs, NEPAD, and Vision at
all levels is Information and Communications
Technology ICT.
ICT is an Empowering Technology
If rightly deployed, it leads to productivity,
improvements and prosperity of Individual ,
Organizational, Society at National and Global
levels.
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About Us
 The High Tech Women Centre for Nigerian Women and
Youths is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGOs)
established and incorporated under Act 1, 1990 Part C of
the Corporate Affairs Commission,
 to train, empower and build capacity in women and
youths in Information Communications Technology (ICT)
across Nigeria.
 This marks her 10th years of leading the vanguard for
empowering Nigerian Women and Youths (including
Children) in ICTs.
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Brief on High-Tech Centre for Women and Youths
Vision: To see Nigerian women and youths become ICT literate
for National development
Mission: To become a leading capacity building Centre in
Information Technology for the development of women and
youths in Nigeria.
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Brief on High-Tech Centre for Women and Youths
Aims and Objectives
1. To provide computer education and Information Technology literacy for
Nigerian women and youths at all levels.
2. To create avenues to educate Nigeria women and youths in ICT by
organising seminars, workshops, summits, IT camps and conferences.
3. To encourage networking and cooperation for Nigeria women and youths
development in Information Technology with other national and
international organisations (private and public), non-governmental
organisations and voluntary agencies with similar objectives and initiatives.
4. To facilitate the establishment of IT centres and ICT Clubs in schools, work
places and communities where women and youths can have access to
information communications technology.
5. To serve as repository of information to women and especially girls on ICT
for empowerment in economic and educational development.
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Our Activities

Achieving our objectives, we have the following activities: We organise several Computer and ICT trainings
for women and youths on a yearly basis which includes:

Children ICT Summit tagged e-Innovate Nigeria – February / March, 2014

Ladies IT SUMMIT (LITS) for female students in Tertiary Institutions – April, 2014

ICT Summer Academy Camp (ISAC) for Youths – July, 2014

Women’s ICT SUMMIT (WITS) for all women from 18 years and above – September, 2014

Workshop for Wives of local government chairmen, House of Assembly members at states and local
government areas in Nigeria – Every Quarter of the Year

ICT Exchange Programmes for Youths and Women in West Africa (ISAC Abroad) – July Yearly

Women’s ICT Development in Africa Project (WIDAP)- November Yearly
Other Commitments

Conduct Policy Research on topical issues relating to women, girls and youths in ICTs – Regularly (all year
round

Facilitate a Facebook page and active website for women and youth to share knowledge and information
from time to time
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Brief on High-Tech Centre for Women and Youths
•To achieve our aims, we organize workshops, trainings and
seminars for the various target groups all through the year so as
to develop IT capabilities that Nigeria needs in Women.
•A national workshop / conference is organized for women in
Nigeria by the NGO in August yearly, and it is expected to start
for the younger girls soon.
•As a non-governmental organization, not-for-profit, we depend
solely on donations (gotten locally for now), charged fees and
private individuals contribution for our various activities.
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ICT Defined
 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is
technology that supports activities involving the creation,
storage, manipulation and communication of information,
together with the related methods, management and
application.
 It enables us to record, store, process, retrieve, and transmit
information.
 It encompasses modern technologies such as computers,
telecommunications, facsimile and microelectronics.
 It also refers to technologies that provide access to information
through telecommunications.
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ICTs
 This includes the
 Internet,
 wireless networks,
 cell phones,
 Television,
 Radios, and
 other communication mediums.
 They are technologies that determine the efficiency and
effectiveness with which we communicate and the
devices that allow us to handle information.
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ICT Penetration Statistics
Computers
• - PC first used in Nigeria in 1963
for analysis of the 1962/63
national census data (Source: UN
University, Tokyo)
• 47 years later, PC penetration still
relatively low at about 10 million
nodes or 7 per 100 inhabitants
Country
Number of
users
Internet
Penetration
Mauritius
340 000
26.7%
Nigeria
23.9 million
16.1%
Zimbabwe
1.5 million
13%
From 200,000 as at year 2000,
Nigeria now has largest online
population in Africa with 24 million
users
Zambia
1.3 million
11.9%
South Africa
5.3 million
10.8 %
Botswana
100 000
5.1%
But penetration remains relatively
Namibia
101 000
4.8%
low at 16.1%
Angola
498 000
4.0%
However, rapid progress is being
Swaziland
42 000
3.7%
made in internet usage
Lesotho
70 000
3.3%
Internet
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Internet Penetration: Top 10 in Sub Sahara
Africa (2009)
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ICT Statistics
Telephony:
TELECOMS SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION 2001-2009
80,000,000
74,518,264
64,296,117
60,000,000
50,000,000
million
Nigeria has done
better here than in
any other ICT area
70,000,000
41,975,275
40,000,000
33,858,022
30,000,000
19,519,154
20,000,000
Rated as one of
the world’s
fastest growing
telecoms market
10,201,728
10,000,000
866,782
2,271,050
4,021,945
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Year
Largest telecoms
sector in Africa
Source: NCC; * as at February 2010
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ICT Statistics
Private Investment in Telecoms (2001-2009)
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18
18
16
US$ (Billions)
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12
11
10
7.5
8
8.15
6
6
4
4
2.1
2
1.2
0
Dec-01
Source: NCC
Dec-02
Dec-03
Dec-04
Dec-05
Dec-06
Dec-07
Dec-08
Dec-09
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Internet Penetration in Nigeria
YEAR
2000
2006
2009
USER
200,000
5,000,000
11,000,000
POPULATION
142,895,600
149,229,090
160,000,000
%
0.1
3.1
7.4
Source: NCC
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ICT Advantages
 Enable changes in the way people live, work, interact and acquire
knowledge
 Communication in real-time with others in different countries using
technologies such as instant messaging, and video-conferencing
 Social networking websites like Face book allow users to remain in
contact and communicate on a regular basis.
 The acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal,
pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics
 People use communication sources to articulate their grievances on
local problems.
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Application of ICTs
 ICT powers our access to information,
 Enables new forms of communication,
 On-line services in the spheres:
 Tele-medicine;
 E-commerce;
 Culture;
 Entertainment; and
 Education
 Community Development
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The Rural Communities
 There are several development issues facing the rural poor.
 Poverty alleviation ;
 Social and physical infrastructure;
 Social barriers ;
 Capacities of people through education
 Access to good quality education;
 Below subsistence levels , etc.
 Solution lies in awareness, empowering people and providing
opportunities for development
 All these need appropriate communication support.
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Community Development
 A community is a group of interacting people living in
some closeness, they share common value, have some
degree of cohesiveness.
 ICT will attract community development
 When the people appreciate information;
 Actively participate in decision making process ;
 Form networks with everyone as a potential stakeholders
 Pool the collective intelligence of the people
 Create opportunities for free and
 Provide unrestricted input for better decisions that will help
move the community forward
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Utilizing ICT for Community Development
 The first area of ICT utilization is through social media explored for
community development in the use of blogs and blogging
 which involves the posting of commentary or news on a particular subject.
 Users can view the content passively or if allowed, can react to posts and
contribute content).
 It also allows users to share ideas and user-generated content (including
images and video) while building connections and associations, both
personal and professional.
 Examples include the sites Blogger (blogger.com), Word press
(wordpress.org), and Twitter (twitter.com)
 The use of Internet can assist practitioners in community development
 The use of internet for community development can empower those who
have the skills and abilities to use these ICT innovative technologies (Social
media and internet)
 It helps to break away from the traditional command and control models of
management.
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ICT Initiatives in Nigeria
 CANi Computer for All Nigerians Initiative : Its PPPP, 2006 to make computers
available to all Nigerians at a affordable price
 SABi State Accelerated Broadband Initiative : It’s a private sector building and
running broadband infrastructure with government support. Provision of wireless
broadband services to stimulate increase in internet usage e-education,
commerce ,governance
 IXP Internet Exchange Point : local internet traffic stay within , to ensure faster
and a more effective communication
 Domain Name Administration in Nigeria
 Unified Licensing Regime: To enable telecom operators provide many services
 Adoption of Space Technology : 2 Satellites have been launched earth
observation and communication satellites
 Rural Telephony and Nigerian post – WSIS monitoring and Evaluation
exercise
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ICT Initiatives
 Galaxy Plc provide single national backbone over which all services ride to reduce the
cost of communication. Harmonization of broadband, VSAT and wireless technology in
the country
 School Net Nigeria; Creation of Virtual libraries
 USPF: It is a special fund as stated in the 2003 Telecommunication Act. The aim is to
provide telecommunications and ICT services to underserved and deprived groups and
communities in the Nigeria. 500 schools spread across the six geopolitical zones of the
country with complete set of Internet tools and facilities while other projects are also in
the pipeline.
 Wire Nigeria ( WiN);
 BTRAIN project addressing the dearth and inadequacies of fiber optic backbone
networks , transmission and infrastructure
 NITDEF: The NITDA act as signed into law in 2007empowers a levy of 1% to be charged
on the profit before tax of companies and enterprises with an annual turnover of N100
million and above. The businesses covered in the act for the levy are as follows:
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ICT Opportunities
ICT provides needed tools in virtually all aspects of life:
 Education:
free access to the best & biggest libraries in the world
vast, endless world of information at your fingertips
online academic programmes (diplomas; degrees, certifications, etc)
 Health:
access to health information
access to effective diagnosis
access to actual treatment
 Government Services;
 Agriculture
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ICT Opportunities Cont’d
Communication:
keeps you in touch with diverse opportunities
links you up with people of all races & breaks all
distance and geographical boundaries
Job Creation/Employability:
expands your horizon & reach for employment
grants you ‘global citizenship’
Innovation/wealth creation:
inspired
endless opportunities to break new grounds & create wealth
youthful innovators & role models abound to keep the youth
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How to Reach the Hard to Reach…
Who are they???
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Who are they???
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Model for ICT Development
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Action Plan: Role Players
GOVERNMENT
PRIVATE SECTOR
HTCWY
Projects
INDIVIDUALS
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Theme: “Women and National Security: Utilizing ICT for
Community Policing and Self Actualisation”
About the Event and its Aims:
The Summit will expose women to security challenges in Nigeria
and the need to actualize their potentials using ICT tools for
development, while taking cognizance of their corporate roles in
community policing for a safe society and family protection.
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Sub- Themes
•Nigeria’s security challenges: Issues and Options for women and
families
•Promoting involvement of women in community policing
•ICT Applications to address national security and community
policing techniques
•Role of Media in Managing Security Challenges
•ICT for wealth creation and women’s entrepreneurial
development
•Workshops – Mobile apps, social media (facebook, gmail
account, blogs and website design)
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Objectives of the Summit
•To formally sensitize Nigeria women on the issues, challenges
and concerns about security in the country;
•To open the mind of women to ICT tools available for domestic
and community policing purposes;
•To encourage women to get involved in community policing for the
security of their families and society;
•To expose the participants to ICT options for making a living in a
knowledge economy for sustainable development.
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 TRAIN A MAN, YOU HAVE ONLY TRAINED A MAN
BUT
 TRAIN A WOMAN AND YOU ARE TRAINING A
NATION…
 POWER UP….. WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY
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YOU ARE WELCOME
THANK YOU!
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