Ghana’s National AI Strategy, launched by President John Dramani Mahama on April 24 at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, spans 2025 to 2035 and rests on eight pillars backed by a National AI Fund that starts at 5 billion cedis, about 450 million US dollars, through 2030 and scales to 15 billion cedis by 2035. Officials want AI to add 200 billion cedis to GDP by 2030 and 500 billion cedis by 2035. One of the eight pillars covers data access and governance, setting a target of curating 1 trillion tokens of Ghanaian datasets by 2030 and proposing grants to fund dataset creation in health, agriculture and education. A Responsible AI Authority is meant to coordinate all eight pillars within the strategy’s first year. The data target depends on information that does not yet exist in usable form inside most Ghanaian businesses, as many small and midsized companies still keep customer records in notebooks or scattered spreadsheets. A Confluent study reported by TechRadar found that about 72 percent of IT leaders blame poor data infrastructure for stalled AI projects. For Ghanaian SMEs, the finding suggests auditing existing records rather than shopping for new software.