Liberia, May 13 -- By Tetee Gebro and Joyclyn Wea with New Narratives

Nearly a year after public anger forced the government to suspend the chaotic rollout of the national digital identification registration, Liberia is preparing to hire a private company to help restart the enrolment and operate the system.

The system will digitize the data of the Liberian population, making banking and a range of other services faster and more secure, supercharging technical innovation, and bringing the country up to the standard of most countries in the world. It is part of a broader World Bank-funded governance and digital services project called the Great Project to digitize Liberia's public services.

The head of the National Registry, Andrew Pete...