“Access to internet should be a basic human right”: Minister Salima Bah on Sierra Leone’s tech ambition

“Access to internet should be a basic human right”: Minister Salima Bah on Sierra Leone’s tech ambition

When I spoke to Sierra Leone’s Minister of Communication, Technology, and Innovation, Salima Bah, last February, the ministry she led was less than a year old, and the country’s ambitions, though bold, were still largely on paper. “We are willing to learn how others have done it; we aren’t inventing the wheel,” she said at the time. Eighteen months on, the country has walked the talk. In that time, the government has invested more than $132 mill…