Ghana Digital Centres Limited (GDCL) has pledged to collaborate with the Business Outsourcing Services Association of Ghana (BOSAG) to train the workforce needed for the association’s ambitious five-year plan to create 100,000 jobs in the digital and business services sector.
The commitment was made by GDCL Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Dzifa Gunu, during his keynote address at BOSAG’s strategic plan launch and the inauguration of its Governing Council on Thursday, November 13, 2025, at the Accra Digital Centre.
“BOSAG’s plan to create one hundred thousand jobs is ambitious and necessary. Think about what that means for youth employment. Think about what it means for families. But these jobs need trained people. They need young Ghanaians with digital skills,” Mr. Gunu stated. He emphasized that Ghana Digital Centres must be the vehicle to deliver the training infrastructure required to make BOSAG’s vision a reality.
Mr. Gunu highlighted that the Accra Digital Centre has already demonstrated its capacity to support the digital economy, hosting over sixty technology companies, creating more than three thousand digital and support jobs, and training over ten thousand young people in digital skills. The centre has also supported over five hundred startups through its incubation programmes and recently signed a partnership with UCLA to train Ghanaians in tech entrepreneurship.
“We have partnerships with almost all the universities in Ghana. Young people walk through our doors every day with brilliant ideas, with concepts that could change industries, with the kind of innovation that makes you proud to be Ghanaian,” the CEO said. He noted that this existing infrastructure and partnership network positions GDCL as the ideal partner to deliver the skilled workforce BOSAG’s members will need.
However, Mr. Gunu cautioned that achieving the scale required for 100,000 jobs cannot be done from Accra alone. He called for the operationalisation of regional digital centres across all sixteen regions to ensure training opportunities reach young Ghanaians wherever they are. “If we want to train the workforce for these one hundred thousand jobs, we cannot ask every young person to come to Accra. We must take the training to them,” he stated.
The GDCL CEO linked this partnership opportunity to the government’s One Million Coders programme, which aims to create jobs and build entrepreneurs in Ghana’s technology sector. “Ghana Digital Centres must be the vehicle to deliver this. We have the experience. We have the partnerships with universities, with organisations like BOSAG, with international institutions like UCLA. We have proven we can do it. We need the support to scale it nationwide,” Mr. Gunu explained.
Mr. Gunu called on government to view investment in digital training infrastructure as critical to Ghana’s economic transformation, noting that every cedi invested comes back multiplied through jobs created, businesses attracted to Ghana, and families lifted out of poverty. He specifically urged the Ministry of Communications, Digital Technology and Innovation to prioritize digital skills development, and the Ministry of Finance to recognize digital centres as vital national infrastructure deserving sustained investment.
The CEO emphasized that the partnership between GDCL and BOSAG represents the kind of public-private collaboration necessary to transform Ghana’s economy. “Your commitment to training, to creating opportunities, to positioning Ghana as a business services hub is exactly the kind of collaboration we need. Together, we can achieve this. Together, we can make Ghana the digital hub of West Africa,” he told the BOSAG gathering.
The event brought together key stakeholders from Ghana’s digital ecosystem, including representatives from AIDEC Digital, SAL, Amalitech, Concentrix, Fourth-IR, and numerous other technology and business process outsourcing companies operating in Ghana.
About Ghana Digital Centres Limited
Ghana Digital Centres Limited (GDCL) operates the Accra Digital Centre and oversees regional digital and innovation centres across Ghana. The organization focuses on digital skills training, startup incubation, and creating an enabling environment for Ghana’s digital economy.
