How Hubtel is rethinking AI in Ghana: Own your data, rent the intelligence
From the trader at Makola checking prices on her phone to the graduate in Kumasi searching for work, one question is getting louder across Ghana. Will artificial intelligence make life better, or will it take away what people already have? Ghana has placed its bet. In 2025 it launched a ten-year national AI strategy, and government has committed $270 million to get the country ready. But for ordinary Ghanaians, the most useful answers may come from a local company that has already tried, stumbled and found a smarter way forward. That company is Hubtel. Head of Engineering, Augustine Adjei, told the national audience during the premiere of the AI & Ghana’s documentary on Joy News, exactly what Ghana’s AI journey looks like from the inside, and why the country does not need to start big to win.