One Million Coders: Government targets 100,000 digital jobs in two years

The government is targeting the creation of 100,000 digitally enabled jobs within the next two years under the One Million Coders Programme, as it shifts its focus from training young people to helping them secure employment.

Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Samuel Nartey George, announced the target during a visit to the Ashanti Region on Monday, October 12, 2026, where he assessed the progress of the programme.

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He said President John Dramani Mahama had directed the Ministry to ensure that the initiative goes beyond training one million Ghanaians in digital skills to creating jobs for beneficiaries after their training.

“We have shown His Excellency the trajectory the programme is on; we will cross a million in the four years. We are pivoting now away from the training into the job creation, and I am confident our target is to reach 100,000 digitally,” he said.

The Minister explained that the government was working to connect trained beneficiaries to businesses that need digital workers, including international companies looking to outsource digital services to Ghana.

He disclosed that the programme had already built a pool of 10,000 data annotators whose skills could be presented to businesses seeking workers for specific digital assignments.

The employment target marks a shift in the implementation of the One Million Coders Programme, which was introduced to equip one million Ghanaians with digital skills over four years under the government’s manifesto commitments.

George said the government had presented reports on the programme’s progress to the President and remained confident of training one million people within the four-year period.

He then toured training centres and artificial intelligence laboratories at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), as well as centres at Kwadaso, Asawase and Nkwantakese.

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