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Sierra Leone is going digital and fast. Power grids, hospital records, school examination systems, and national security communications increasingly run on interconnected digital infrastructure. This has made public services faster and more efficient, but it has also created a new kind of vulnerability. When a system goes down today, whether through cyberattack, error, or simple

Madam Salima Bah, Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation The National Communications Authority (NatCA) has celebrated its 20th anniversary with a renewed call to strengthen the institutions, partnerships and policies that have transformed Sierra Leone’s telecommunications sector over the past two decades. Speaking at the anniversary celebration, the Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation, Madam

The Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation (MoCTI), with support from UNICEF Sierra Leone and the International Trade Centre (ITC) through the KOICA READY Salone Project, has successfully completed the second cohort of the Learn2Earn Programme, with 60 young Sierra Leoneans graduating after an intensive digital freelancing and employability training programme. Building on the success

Representatives from the public and private sectors African digital payments move $270 billion annually across mobile money platforms and country-specific mobile wallets. Yet the legal infrastructure protecting those transactions does not exist across most of the continent. Sierra Leone is changing that. On the 27th and 28th July, the government convened a public-private dialogue to

First Student Cohort Produces 11 Solutions Across 8 SDGs Representatives from the Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation (MoCTI), UNICEF, UNU-MERIT and Limkokwing University of Creative Technology with students following the Digital Public Goods (DPG) in Academia End-of-Semester Exhibition in Freetown. Sierra Leone has integrated Digital Public Goods (DPG) and open-source principles into university-level technology

This week, as we commemorate World Youth Skills Day 2026, we celebrate the extraordinary potential of Sierra Leone’s young people – the innovators, creators, entrepreneurs and problem-solvers who will shape our nation’s future. This year, I want to talk not just about the skills we are building, but about ensuring those skills translate into real,

When the Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation launched Cohort 2 of the Learn2Earn Programme, in partnership with UNICEF Sierra Leone and the International Trade Centre through the KOICA READY Salone Project, the aim was to give young Sierra Leoneans practical digital and freelancing skills they could put to work immediately. James Emmanuel Paul Yambasu,

Permanent Secretaries, Deputy Permanent Secretaries, Directors and Assistant Directors that attended the launch. Freetown, 10 July 2026The Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation (MoCTI), in partnership with the Ministry of Public Administration and Political Affairs (MoPAPA), the Public Service Academy nd the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO), today launched the Digital Skills Training Programme for