The Director of External Affairs at Telecel Ghana, Komla Buami, has advocated for a brand new generation of collaboration and enterprise development in younger innovators as the rustic positions itself for a virtual long term.

Speaking on the 2025 Tech in Ghana convention at the theme: ‘When Tradition Meets Innovation’ held on the Manhyia Palace, Mr. Buami shared the telecommunications large’s sustained enterprise development in nurturing younger skills, supporting commercial space startups, and championing partnerships that boost up the field of the rustic’s virtual financial environment.

Addressing an target market that incorporated chiefs, coverage makers, captains of innovator, marketers and key figures within the commercial space ecosystem, he described Ghana’s subsequent virtual soar as contingent on daring enterprise development within the subsequent era of thinkers and makers.

“Connectivity alone isn’t enough. We must invest in the next wave of thinkers and innovators. We must be intentional about building a constant talent pipeline to lead the digital revolution,” he mentioned, urging innovator leaders to conquer the lure of operating in silos that has frequently hindered collaboration within the business creation.

Telecel Ghana has already demonstrated this dedication thru projects just like the DigiTech Academy, which has educated about 2,000 higher number one and junior highschool scholars throughout 13 areas in robotics, coding, synthetic intelligence, the Internet of Things, and virtual direction.

Through DigiTech, many younger graduates had been supplied to construct prototypes of good house methods, automatic farm harvesters, and internet programs addressing demanding situations equivalent to malnutrition and psychological well being.

“Ghana is not short of talent; we’ve simply not been asking our young people to dream big enough and not given them the tools and enabling environment to lead the digital revolution. That should change now,” Mr. Buami mentioned.

He additionally shared the telco’s efforts to deal with gender disparity in engineering thru its Female Engineering Students Scholarship Programme (FESSP), which has educated greater than 100 feminine engineers via offering mentorship, monetary make stronger, and sensible paintings enjoy.

Telecel has just lately bolstered its dedication to virtual abilities method via partnering with the Ghana One Million Coders initiative, providing unfastened get entry to to its Startocode platform for 100,000 younger other people. The platform supplies lessons in Python, internet method, information analytics, and virtual modernization, with a specific focal point on empowering feminine novices.

Beyond skill method, Telecel has performed a number one position in strengthening Africa’s new venture ecosystem. Through the Africa Startup Initiative Programme, Telecel Group has supported greater than 40 startups, supplied greater than $750,000 in advantages, and helped create just about 4,000 jobs, with about 70 in keeping with cent of those startups being women-led.

Mr Buami additionally stressed out the significance of collaboration throughout sectors, arguing that market can’t occur in isolation. He recommended commercial space founders to paintings with conventional industries, AI innovators, govt, content material creators and universities to develop the commercial space innovator inclusively.

 “Innovation doesn’t happen in compartments. Across the world, collaboration is leading innovation. Open-source ecosystems are winning. Cross-sector partnerships are winning. And Ghana must win this way too,” he mentioned.

Positioning itself as a long-term spouse in Ghana’s virtual adventure, Telecel has pledged to proceed making an investment in connectivity infrastructure, mentoring younger innovators, and supporting the wider commercial space ecosystem to make sure Ghana’s virtual revolution is inclusive and sustainable.

Tech in Ghana: Royal Edition 2025 is the sixteenth version of the nationwide commercial space convention, and the primary ever to be held within the Ashanti Region below the patronage of Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II.  The convention introduced in combination startups, buyers, govt representatives, and commercial space fans from the diaspora to discover how sectors like agriculture, training, production and fintech are being remodeled via funding.

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