{"name":"Applied AI in Liberia — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Liberia, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/liberia","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-09-28","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Liberia","slug":"liberia","iso2":"LR","region":"Sub-Saharan Africa"},"counts":{"entries":5,"deployments":4,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":1,"regulation":0,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":5},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Liberia","role":"Tax officer","org":"Liberia Revenue Authority","text":"The Liberia Revenue Authority is building an AI-powered contact centre for tax enquiries, aiming to give people answers on customs and duties without a manual lookup. Staff from the Taxpayer Services Division met partner Kwagei Group at a Margibi County retreat to shape the underlying knowledge base, overseen by the LRA Tax Knowledge Governance Committee. Complaints and service questions will also route through the new AI customer service system once live.","date":"2026-09-10","source":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/liberiarevenueauthority_transforming-taxpayer-services-lra-advances-activity-7503618260676984832-UCBw"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Liberia","role":"Citizen","org":"Liblaw","text":"Liblaw has rolled out CJ Lewis for AI legal education in Liberia, the country's first legal-learning AI platform. Drawing on Liberian Supreme Court rulings from 1861 to 2026 alongside statutes and regulations, it turns complex law into plain explanations reachable by phone or computer for market women, farmers, students and journalists. Liblaw is Liberia's biggest digital law library.","date":"2026-08-03","source":"https://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/liblaw-launches-liberias-first-legal-learning-artificial-intelligence/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Liberia","role":"Economist","org":"Central Bank of Liberia","text":"Helen Momo built the Central Bank of Liberia's new AI macroeconomic forecasting system, calling it the region's \"First Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Predicting Macroeconomic Forecasting and Financial Intelligence in the Region.\" Shown publicly at the Liberia Technology Summit, the tool generates financial intelligence and projects economic trends for the bank. Momo, a Harvard-educated technologist from Liberia, designed it to serve the institution directly, giving the country a homegrown alternative for economic trend prediction rather than relying on outside systems.","date":"2026-07-29","source":"https://www.liberianobserver.com/business/technology-is-liberia-s-future/article_0dad31be-b236-4c7f-893b-040c5441176f.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Liberia","role":"Small business owner","org":"Orange Liberia","text":"Orange made Lorpu AI reachable by basic call or SMS, skipping smartphones and data plans entirely. The AI voice assistant Liberia now hosts spoken lessons and live commodity prices for students and small business owners, priced at L$0.5 once LAD is texted to 2026.","date":"2026-07-03","source":"https://thenewsnewspaperonline.com/orange-liberia-launches-lorpu-ai-to-bridge-liberias-information-gap-for-schools-businesses/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Liberia","org":"Liberia Revenue Authority","text":"Liberia Revenue Authority staff learned AI tools for tax communication at a three-day retreat held by its Communication, Media and Public Affairs Section. Employees from Taxpayer Services, Customs, Domestic Tax and other units trained in artificial intelligence for institutional communication, covering research, content creation and media monitoring.","date":"2026-03-16","source":"https://oraclenewsdaily.com/2026/03/16/liberia-lra-chief-hails-communication-unit-impact-on-revenue-drive/"}]}