Civic Education, Information and Computer Technology (CivICT)

SchoolNet Nigeria contacted schools with the Diginet facilities to participate in the project. It selected teachers from the schools that worked with the students during the project. The teachers were required to facilitate students in collaboration and aid them in ICTs. The project activities included:

• The students were registered in a common listserve and, in this activity they exchanged cultural ideas and knowledge, introducing themselves to other students on the listserve.
• Participating students discused and brainstormed on the government services and the various reasons for their importance.
• An online discussion. The students in all participating countries share ideas and discuss the different procedures taken in various CivICT activities.
• Students visited the government services of their choice. Arrangements were made by SchoolNet Nigeria and government service stakeholders for students in this activity.
• A web training workshop was conducted for students. Students were required to learn to build websites where they will make available all the information about their schools, the civic project and the government service they visited.
• Students built a website to share information with colleagues. Some of the sites were:
  Model Secondary School Maitama website
  Government Secondary School Wuse website
  Government Science-Technical College website
  Government Secondary School Garki website

The project involved 70 students from the four DigiNet schools.

Political Development, Youth, Technology.

The objectives of the project are to:

• expose young Nigerians (of secondary school age) to government and governance structure at an early age).
• enable youth to collaborate and carry out discussions on government and governance- comparing and contrasting the different systems being employed.
• empower youth to contribute in improving the quality of governance in their communities.
• stimulate dialogue on government issues.
• learn about government services.
• expose them to qualities that make for a good or bad government.
• teach them how to design and build websites for their individual schools.
• teach them how to make available the information they learnt during the programme on websites.
• unifying youth in these countries as agents of transformation and encouraging them to participate in development.