A ‘digital Liberia — leaving no one behind’ is the promise of a recently launched new five-year roadmap aimed at accelerating the country’s digital transformation and strengthening national control over critical technology systems.
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MoPT) Strategic Plan for 2025–2029, is called Digital Liberia: Equity, Sovereignty and Innovation for a Connected Future. Sovereignty is evidently a key word here: the plan is said to outline a coordinated push to build local digital capacity and reduce reliance on external infrastructure and platforms.
There are eight priority focus areas. Alongside strengthening cybersecurity and data sovereignty they include expanding universal connectivity, promoting digital inclusion, introducing a national digital addressing system alongside postal reform, advancing e-governance, and supporting ICT-driven innovation. The plan also supports broader national priorities such as economic growth, job creation and improved public service delivery.
The strategy aligns with the ARREST (Agriculture, Roads, Rule of Law, Education, Sanitation and Tourism) Agenda, Liberia’s fourth post-conflict National Development Plan (2025–2029).
While these aims are admirable are they measurable? The announcement insists that focus areas are grouped under four broader strategic pillars designed to drive measurable progress while ensuring that digital development benefits communities across the country.
At the moment, however, the new document does not yet appear to be available on the MoPT website, although a Whole of Government National Digital Strategy (2025 – 2029), posted in September last year, can be found there.
