NITDA lifts NTA with digital capacity centre to boost performance, service delivery
As part of its mandate in development information technology in Nigeria, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has donated a Digital Capacity Building Centre (DCBC) to Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).
The presentation made at the NTA’s Corporate Headquarters in Abuja was done to step up capacity of the management and staff of NTA for effective and modern communication and to upgrade the quality of their production to meet with modern standards.
Explaining the gesture while commissioning the centre, Director General, NITDA, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami said, the world has gone digital and archaic machines that were used twenty years ago cannot stand in this modern age. Such that NTA has to go with the world best practice to make them relevant and updated.
He noted that aside upgrading, the centre has the capacity to train their staff with the availability of e-learning application, server and wireless internet connectivity to allow access to different educational materials that will be useful for their development.
Continuing, Ibrahim Pantami emphasized the need for NITDA to enforce its regulatory mandate as the clearing house for all government IT projects.
He noted that this role is critical as it needs more publicity for it to be actualized, stressing that in using the new materials, the NITDA-NTA relationship will be a win-win one as NTA has what NITDA needs and vice versa.
Responding, the Director General of NTA, Mallam Yakubu Ibn Mohammed, earlier in his remarks thanked the DG NITDA for this gesture and hope that the partnership between the agencies continue to be beneficial to the entire staff and takes them to the next level. He said NTA is a world class television network and the donation of a (DCBC) will help improve their production.
Mohammed while expressing delight, said that he is proud of NITDA’s local content drive as the equipments at the centre are from local manufacturers; Omatek Computers, licensed software and Internet Service Provider (ISP) from NIGCOMSAT. Among the things donated are e-learning Apps, server, printers, inverter, scanners, air conditioners and fans.
