January 9th, 2012 
Anna Seymour 
Monrovia
Liberia aka Republic of Liberia
Africa
Monday, January 09, 2012
Writing about people and countries can be very inspirational but when it comes to the African country of Liberia aka Republic of Liberia there is not much that inspires anyone or anybody! The bottom layer of the food chain seems to start and end in Liberia aka Republic of Liberia and under the hood of this strife torn country well let us just say it is not pretty. But hey we will move away from then economy as to all intents and purposes this beleaguered African country merits the ranking of one of the ten poorest countries in the world.
Unfortunately this is home to more than 3.4 million Liberians who make up the total population in a country where life expectancy is 49.96 male, 52.91 female latest figures circa 2001 estimated.
Here are the Internet User statistics
- 20,000 Internet users as of November 2008, 0.5% of the population, per ITU – International Telecommunications Union
How about scaling a comparison for say an exhibition in several venues say in NYC – LA – SF – Paris – London – Milan – Tokyo et al all will be serving time limited exhibitions say for Fashion – Cars - Commerce and Industrial goods and services. Any of these venues at all the locations will have ISPs to provide more than 20,000 internet connections for visitors use at each and every exhibition.
Regarding Internet Censorship in Liberia aka Republic of Liberia sadly who really cares any statistics based on 20,000 Internet users are globally irrelevant!
2012 Internet Censorship Bill Liberia…
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Liberia needs to be concerned about developing Internet usage first, rather than dwelling on Internet Censorship. Liberia, a home of about 3.7 Million people with its less than 0.5% internet users, needs low cost equipment, affordable services and application, a better quality and greater number of Network Engineers, accessibility of the internet on mobile phones, cheaper bandwidth including through fibre optic and Internet Exchange point. Liberia also needs government subsidies to extend Internet access to all communities; it needs free and open source software that can support e-governance, education and health and it needs to attract investment in ICT activities like business process outsourcing.
Liberia need to put emphasis on improving connectivity (and this connectivity should be low-cost, including wireless and VSAT), giving more Liberians to know-how of using the internet, and generating content that is relevant to Liberians, and easy for them to access and use.