NITDA enhances NTA’s operations with digital capacity building information centre

National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has donated a Digital Capacity Building Centre (DCBC) to Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) at their Corporate Headquarters in Abuja, in order to boost capacity of the management and staff for effective, modern communication and to upgrade the quality of their production to meet with modern standards.
Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, director general, NITDA, while commissioning the centre, said, the world has gone digital and archaic machines that were used twenty years ago cannot stand in this modern age; hence NTA has to go with the world best practice to make them relevant and updated.
According to him, besides 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.
Dr Pantami underscored the need for NITDA to enforce its regulatory mandate as the clearing house for all government IT projects, adding that this role is critical as it needs more publicity for it to be actualized.
Looking at the roles of NTA in disseminating information at home and abroad, he added that the relationship will be a win-win one as NTA has what NITDA needs and vice versa.
The DG NITDA noted that the Wannacry Ransomware Virus is a threat and a lesson to Nigerians especially all MDAs and stakeholders to host their data in Nigeria with the use of .ng; by so doing our data will be protected from hackers.
He stressed that those MDAs that host their data outside the country are at risk of the Wannacry Ransomware Virus.
Earlier in his remarks, Mallam Yakubu Ibn Mohammed, director general of NTA, 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.
Mallam Mohammed said NTA is a world class television network and the donation of a DCBC will help improve their production.
The DG NTA also said that he is proud of NITDA’s local content drive as the equipment 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.