complained that they lacked resources to facilitate the movement of enrollment forms from Monrovia to the fields and back. The team discovered the effectiveness of partnering with private sector partners, in this case, Lonestar/MTN and Orange, to facilitate enrollment activities through agent and point of sale networks throughout the counties. Similar projects should consider private sector partnerships to achieve shared goals. SNAPSHOT BUILDING THE IT CAPACITY OF PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICERS FOR BETTER GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION AND TRANSPARANCY At a workshop organized and facilitated by USAID Digital Liberia, Government IT professionals trained Public Relations Officers in the use of a content management system (CMS). IT experts and Public Relations Officers work directly together for the first time. “Citizens can now look forward to being better informed through government websites,” said Mr. Public relations officers in Liberian government entities face challenges in providing accurate and timely content to the public through government websites. USAID’s Digital Liberia project partnered with the MOPT to conduct a workshop for IT professionals and public relations officers from across the government on using content management systems. The training on August 20 and 21, 2019 was designed to enable government entities to publish and update information on their websites without outside IT assistance. To ensure local ownership, the workshop was conducted entirely by Liberians, for Liberians. The Ministry of Information’s webmaster, Nixon Flomo, led the training. The Ministry of Health’s webmaster, Calvin Coleman, then presented a successful example of the ministry’s use of WordPress, an open-source content management system. At the workshop, for the first time, IT professionals worked together with public relations officers. They now have the necessary skills and contacts to collaborate with their IT colleagues to migrate their websites to WordPress, a simple, user-friendly and free content management system. Interdepartmental communication will be critical for the sustainability of these improvements. Nalon Kaine, Head of the the Project Management Office at MOPT. OBJECTIVE 2 The goal of Objective 2 was to support the capacity development of government internet service provisioning, support connectivity of the University of Liberia and establish a Research and Education Network. Support for government internet services provisioning required procurement support and capacity building to support the connectivity requirements for the GOL to enable the government to best and most efficiently utilize the transformational potential of access to digital information and communications through connection to the internet. Activities expanded efforts to effectively provision, extend, secure, and manage access to a logical government broadband network on behalf of Liberia MACs. Expected Results under Objective 2 included: DIGITAL LIBERIA FINAL REPORT | 14