Ghana and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the establishment of a technology and innovation hub to boost the country’s digital transformation and position it as a leading centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies.
The initiative, dubbed the “Ghana-UAE Innovations and Technology Hub,” led by the UAE’s Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCFC), will serve as a strategic base for global tech giants seeking to expand their presence in the country and across the continent.
This means it will attract more than 11,000 global companies under the PCFC umbrella—including tech giants such as Microsoft, Oracle, Meta, IBM and Alphabet, and will be serving as a regional base for AI engineering, business process outsourcing (BPO), knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) and data generation for Africa-focused machine learning.
The initial phase of the one-billion-dollar project, fully funded by the PCFC, in partnership with leading AI firms behind Dubai’s AI transformation, will involve the development of a 25 square kilometre (Km2) site in Ningo-Prampram with the government providing the land for the initiative.
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