Liberia: Nir Clarifies OSD Partnership

Monrovia — The National Identification Registry (NIR) has clarified that Liberia’s partnership with Austrian firm OSD is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) designed to modernize the country’s National Biometric Identification System (NBIS), without compromising national data sovereignty.

At a press conference on June 2, NIR Communications Director Daniel Sloh Sargbe addressed concerns about the agreement, emphasizing that all Liberian biometric data remains under the exclusive ownership and…