ICT Policy
Our dear citizens, the general business community, our development partners, and our youths whose learning and other programs depend on ICT, I bring you greetings. Today, with the support of the Cabinet and this collective inputs of stakeholders in the ICT Sector, I am pleased to adopt the National ICT and Telecommunication Policy of Liberia. The Policy seeks to drive the holistic development of the sector over the next five years. While Government is responsible to implement the policy, one of our strategies is to collaborate with the private sector in providing some of the basic services to our people through an enabling environment. Our country has lagged behind over the years in terms of not leveraging the opportunities that ICT provides. The urge is to empower the private sector, the commitment to transform public entities and our desire to support other institutions has been duly prioritized in this policy. We are convinced that the programs that constitute this policy will contribute to our national reconstruction process through optimizing technologies.
We all know that technology is powerful tool, but just a tool. Its efficacy lies in its ability to accomplish the will of the man and society, as a level of efficiency, speed, and economy of scale, so that we can create products and services, and reach more people over great distances, all exponentially, at more affordable cost to those who need them most. Our Government identifies ICT as a solution-based tool. Especially, putting in place the appropriate policy, legal and regulatory framework, and creating the enabling environment in governing the sector better prepare us in using this tool.
The National Telecommunications and ICT Policy is a strategic document that aligns our poverty Reduction Strategy and the Millennium Development Goals and the goals of the World Summit on Information Society as well as with the ECOWAS ICT supplementary Acts. This Government vision is for Liberia to become a globally competitive knowledge and information society where lasting improvement in social, economic, and cultural development is achieved through the effective use of ICT.
Let me thank the National Steering Committee for translating our vision into programs that cross-cut all sector; private, governance, health, education, and the communities.
Finally, I want to emphasize that this Government will at all times, promote access to relevant, localized, and understandable information for all citizens and residents.
His Excellency George M. Weah, Sr.
President, Republic of Liberia
