The Minister of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations presented 8,500 laptops on 11 April to support the national rollout of the One Million Coders Programme. 6,500 Lenovo laptops went to regional managers of the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication for distribution to 130 learning centres across all 16 regions, each equipped with 50 machines configured for coding training. A further 2,000 went to 12 universities.
The programme is scheduled to begin on 1 May 2026. Phase one targets 400,000 trainees during the year. MTN Ghana contributed financially toward the laptop acquisition.
The One Million Coders Programme is the government's flagship digital skills initiative, intended to equip young people with coding capability for employability and to feed the pipeline for Ghana's planned National AI Computing Centre. The 130 centres provide the physical infrastructure. The laptops provide the access. Whether the curriculum and instructor capacity match the hardware deployment will determine whether the programme produces coders or just distributes computers.
