Kathmandu, July 30 -- Liberia's concession agreement with Liberia Traffic Management Incorporated (LTMI) was heralded as a step toward modernizing public sector services, including vehicle registration, driver's licensing, and traffic enforcement. But a close examination reveals that, as currently drafted, this contract opens the nation and its citizens to profound risks-primarily because it lacks critical protections regarding data ownership, oversight, and technological sustainability.

Glaring Shortfalls in Data Ownership and Protection At the heart of the agreement's shortcomings is the effective ceding of control over sensitive national datasets-including biometric and geographic information-to a private, foreign-led vendor. Nowhere ...