Samuel Nartey George, Minister for Communications, Digital Technology and Innovations, says the One Million Coders Programme is designed to reskill, upskill, and skill Ghanaians from being digitally native to becoming AI native.
The initiative, officially launched on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, in Accra and across satellite locations, aims to equip one million citizens with coding and digital skills to drive innovation, job creation, and economic transformation.
It seeks to drive innovation, job creation, and economic transformation by transitioning Ghanaians from being digitally native to becoming AI native.
Speaking on Morning Starr with Naa Dedei Tettey, Mr. George explained that the programme is inclusive and targets all Ghanaians regardless of age, educational background, or social status.
According to Mr. George, training centers will be established across every district capital, and eventually, every university student will be required to complete a module under the programme as a prerequisite for graduation.
The programme, he added, also targets civil servants, with directors from a certain rank required to undergo training on IoT and AI adoption for public service delivery.
Additionally, math and science teachers will receive training to incorporate basic coding into the curriculum.
He said, “One million coders is what you’ll call a trade name. What the policy really is, is a training programme that allows for to re-skill, up-skill and skill Ghanaians irrespective of their age or qualification or social status. So basically, one million coders talks about having us retrain people from being digitally native to becoming AI native. It cuts across the young people of our country who are going to be trained in our training centers, eventually, when we fully deploy this across every district capital.”
“One million coders refers to every university student who, by the time we’re fully deployed, every university student will have to do one of the models under the UNCP as prerequisite for graduation. It talks about our civil service, but directors from a certain rank will all have to go back to the civil service training institute to get some level of training on IOTs and AI adoption for public service delivery. Where we’re really looking at the curriculum for maths and science and maths and science teachers under the GES will have to have some training because we’re incorporating basic coding into our curriculum.”
Mr. George emphasized that the One Million Coders Programme is a visionary plan by President Mahama to reset Ghana’s thinking and positioning as a central location for digitally compliant skill sets that can be exported.
“This is a plan, it’s a vision of John Dramani-Mahama to reset our entire thinking and our entire positioning as a central location for digitally, artificial, intelligent, compliant skill sets that we can begin to export, making Ghana the hub for Africa when it comes to human capital.”
