The Director of Media Relations at Liberia’s National Identification Registry (NIR) says the national ID system in central to the country’s digital economy efforts and partnerships have been an important factor in driving adoption of the card. Daniel Sloh Sargbe was speaking during a press briefing this week in Monrovia in which he gave updates about the NIR’s work and its ambitions for the near future, Front Page Africa reports . According to Sargbe, although their principal mandate is to register Liberians into a national ID system, they also have an important role to play in creating the enabling environment for the country’s digital transformation can be accelerated. “We are not just enrolling people into a system, we are creating a foundation for the future of Liberia’s digital economy, the official said as quoted. He noted that as of December last year, NIR had registered around 740,000 citizens for the national ID program, thanks largely to partnerships which the ID authority has with different national institutions as well as international partners such as UNICEF. He mentioned that the registrants are between the ages of 31 and 65 years old, 59 percent of which are male. NIR has reported lethargy […]
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