{"id":205026,"date":"2025-08-19T22:27:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberian-ict-firms-warn-of-sovereignty-risk-in-foreign-dominated-contracts-local-tech-leaders-call-for-fair-procurement-protection-of-national-data-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T20:27:48","slug":"liberian-ict-firms-warn-of-sovereignty-risk-in-foreign-dominated-contracts-local-tech-leaders-call-for-fair-procurement-protection-of-national-data-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberian-ict-firms-warn-of-sovereignty-risk-in-foreign-dominated-contracts-local-tech-leaders-call-for-fair-procurement-protection-of-national-data-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberian ICT Firms Warn of Sovereignty Risk in Foreign-Dominated Contracts Local Tech Leaders Call for Fair Procurement, Protection of National Data Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Monrovia \u2014 A consortium of Liberian-owned information and communications technology (ICT) companies has issued a strong warning to the government, urging immediate reforms in public procurement to safeguard national sovereignty and give local firms a fair chance at major contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">In a letter addressed to National Security Advisor Hon. Kofi Woods and copied to key ministries, agencies, and legislative committees, the ICT executives decried a pattern in which critical national projects are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508190251.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 A consortium of Liberian-owned information and communications technology (ICT) companies has issued a strong warning to the government, urging immediate reforms in public procurement to safeguard national sovereignty and give local firms a fair chance at major contracts. In a letter addressed to National Security Advisor Hon. Kofi Woods and copied to key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6880,10119,9880,7724,7082,52149,5644,4381,1107,1090,7823,6687,257,14537,7897,9590,254,864,10564,8437,12313],"class_list":["post-205026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-contracts","tag-data","tag-fair","tag-firms","tag-foreigndominated","tag-ict","tag-leaders","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberian","tag-local","tag-national","tag-news","tag-procurement","tag-protection","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovereignty","tag-systems","tag-tech","tag-warn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}