Former Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Acheampong, has urged the government to ensure fairness and impartiality in the implementation of the newly launched One Million Coders Programme, stressing that the process will be closely watched.
Speaking in response to the initiative, which was unveiled on Wednesday, April 16, he expressed cautious optimism about the potential benefits of the programme, but noted that it must be executed with integrity to truly serve the Ghanaian youth.
“We just hope that they will give jobs to the Ghanaian youth to work and that they will do it fairly and squarely, so they do not allow some biases to influence the implementation. We are going to observe the spaces with a keen eye,” he said in an interview on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Thursday, April 17.
This comes on the heels of the launch of the One Million Coders Programme, a nationwide government initiative aimed at equipping one million young Ghanaians with essential digital and coding skills to meet the growing demands of the global tech industry.
In this interest, the Minister for Communications, Digital Technology, and Innovation, Samuel Nartey George, revealed that 91,847 applications have been received so far.
The launch, held in Accra and streamed to four satellite locations across the country, brought together representatives from the technology sector, academia, development partners, and civil society. It forms a major part of the government’s drive to create a digitally literate and future-ready workforce.