Tech for Girls founder Johanna Swaniker calls for investment to expand digital skills programme in Ghana

Speaking at the graduation ceremony for the programme's fourth cohort, Ambassador Swaniker said funding remains the biggest challenge to scaling the initiative despite growing demand for training in coding, innovation and digital technology.

The Founder of the Heritage and Cultural Society of Africa (HACSA), Ambassador Johanna Swaniker, has called for increased financial and institutional support to expand the Tech for Girls programme, saying greater investment is needed to equip more young women with digital skills for the future of work.

Ambassador Swaniker traced the origins of the programme to her tenure as Ghana's Ambassador to France and UNESCO, where she launched the Girls Can Code initiative to introduce coding to younger girls by training teachers to deliver lessons in schools.