Ghana has set out a digital economic strategy anchored on infrastructure, skills, trust, and innovation, with government outlining five priorities to steer inclusive growth and competitiveness in the sector.
Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations Minister Samuel Nartey George said the focus areas are connectivity for productivity, scaling digital skills with gender inclusion, digital finance, robust trust frameworks, and strategic technology procurement.
“Despite progress, challenges persist, including high data costs, uneven service quality, and rising cyber risks, with Ghana facing over 6,400 incidents this year,” he told participants at the Digital Africa Summit in Accra on September 3, 2025.
The minister called for stronger private sector participation to turn policy into impact. “I invite partners to invest, build, teach, and safeguard, transforming bandwidth into business, data into decisions, and code into jobs,” he said.
Ghana has already introduced reforms designed to boost competition and lower costs, including spectrum allocation, the removal of the electronic transactions levy, and technology neutrality for operators. According to Sam George, the One Million Coders program has drawn over 90,000 applications, with a target to equip 100,000 young Ghanaians with digital skills by year-end.
He added that recent measures had helped reduce costs, with “MTN bundles increasing by 15% and Telecel and AirtelTigo increasing bandwidth by 10%.”
The Accra summit also marked the launch of a new digitalisation study on Ghana, intended as a roadmap for the country’s digital future.
