On 25 March 2024, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo launched the Ghana Smart Schools Project, a scheme designed to provide every secondary student with an educational tablet and to equip schools with connected "smart" classroom blocks. According to the Ghana Education Service, the project extends the Free Senior High School policy and aims to equip all senior high and technical/vocational students with digital devices and tailored learning content.

This upgrade of digital tools in schools is part of a broader wave of education digitalisation, where infrastructure, financing and teacher capabilities have become critical variables for transforming both access to content and learning outcomes. In an address in early June 2026, Education Minister Haruna Iddrisu framed this digital transformation as a central lever for aligning Ghana's school system with twenty-first century skills.

At the launch of the Ghana Smart Schools Project, the government highlighted an ambition for a fast and large-scale rollout of devices across secondary schools. National coverage detailed a "One Tablet One Student" initiative targeting the distribution of 1.3 million educational tablets to public senior high and technical and vocational schools.

Initial deliveries have started, but the gap between announcements and execution is already visible. According to details provided in May 2024, approximately 70,000 tablets had been supplied to 30 schools, while a first batch of 450,000 units was already available for distribution.

Implementation challenges are not limited to logistics. A report by the Auditor-General on pre-university institutions notes that some consignments remain in school storerooms instead of reaching students. In one audited school, the Ghana Education Service delivered 5,466 tablets in April 2024, but only 262 had actually been issued to learners, leaving the majority without the promised digital access.

Beyond student devices, the administration is building digital literacy through nationwide skills programmes. On 29 April 2026, the Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations announced that all regional ministers had been equipped with laptops ahead of the nationwide roll-out of the "One Million Coders Programme", which is intended to train large numbers of young people in coding and IT skills.

These ambitions rest in part on the mainstream education budget. For the 2026 fiscal year, government has allocated GH¢33.3 billion to education, including GH¢9.9 billion for the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund), with a share earmarked for school infrastructure and technology-linked projects.

Specialised agencies are being used to push equipment into underserved regions. In May 2026, the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) handed over 550 laptops to the Upper East Region to bolster local implementation of the One Million Coders Programme.

Alongside public policy, Ghana's EdTech ecosystem is increasingly shaping how digital tools enter classrooms. In his June address, Haruna Iddrisu highlighted a partnership with the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship supporting 36 Ghanaian EdTech ventures that have already reached more than 690,000 learners, nearly half of them girls from rural and underserved communities.

Artificial intelligence pilots are adding another layer, particularly around teacher education. A research project unveiled at the end of 2025, "GenAITEd Ghana", describes the development of a school-mimetic digital infrastructure aligned with Ghanaian Colleges of Education and the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment framework, providing trainee teachers with a context-aware conversational AI assistant.

Higher education is seeing its own prototypes targeting specific disciplines. A study published in May 2026 presents "Eskwai for Students", a generative AI assistant designed to support legal education in Ghana, with features adapted to local teaching and assessment practices.


As programmes multiply, oversight mechanisms are tightening to ensure that digital devices and tools actually reach schools and are used for learning. The 2025 Auditor-General's report on pre-university institutions explicitly calls for smart devices supplied under the Ghana Smart Schools Project to be issued to students without delay and for school administrations to maintain detailed issuance and usage records.

Authorities are also relying on broader reform frameworks to embed digital tools into secondary education transformation. The Secondary Education Transformation for Access, Relevance, and Results for Jobs (STARR-J) initiative, supported by the World Bank, is described by the National Schools Inspectorate Authority as a key vehicle for expanding access, improving quality and labour-market relevance in secondary education, with a strong digital transformation component.

In the short term, the trajectory of Ghana's digital integration in schools will hinge on subsequent waves of tablet and laptop distribution, on the execution of the 2026 education budget and on the operational roll-out of the One Million Coders Programme under the oversight of the ministry in charge of digital technology.