The vibrant youthful population in Ghana is met with alarming challenges in technology sector, as the sector is characterized by a lack of large-scale tech service providers and an underdeveloped digital infrastructure.

This has influenced a gap that render many young Ghanaians without the essential digital skills to compete in the global digital economy, where opportunities for high-level tech jobs are abundant.

Amalitech is aiming to assist young Ghanaians in Kumasi to develop and polish their digital skills to remain self-employed.

The technology landscape in Ghana is predominantly occupied by institutions that primarily develop digital skills for internal use.

The stark absence of businesses focus of tech services and infrastructure on a large scale, is accounting for Ghana’s absence on the radar of global tech giants.

Amalitech recognizing the situation is putting in efforts to expand exposure and opportunities for local talent to change the scenario.

With the opening of its new branch in Kumasi, Amalitech is directly addressing these gaps.

Chief Executive Officer of Amalitech, Martin Hecker says the vision is to create digital jobs run by young people themselves.

“The technology sector in Ghana is underdeveloped. You see a lot of companies for their own kind of purpose. But in terms of large-scale service providers, they don't exist. It has to do with the fact that Ghana is not on the map of the global tech companies.

“So for us as Amalitech, it was a perfect country to start because it has a talent. And we see a lot of young people who are eager to join us and give their best. Our vision since 2019 has been to create digital jobs for Africa's youth, starting in Takoradi and now expanding to Kumasi. We've seen the talent here,” he said.

With the new office in Ahodwo Kumasi, Amalitech will not only offer training but provide consistent skill development and remain competitive in the rapid evolution.

Young people in Kumasi, have been engaged to focus on quality and complexities in tech jobs rather than basic roles.

Hecker indicated that government should recognize the global importance of digital services, to improve the landscape.

“If they would understand the importance of digital services globally, they could do a lot in terms of providing better infrastructure, providing better educational frameworks in the universities and in other measures,” he said.

Janine Rensmann of Deutsche Telekom, explained that partnership with Amalitech is driven by commitment to create a better ecosystem that benefits Ghanaian society.

She insists a focus on underserved groups like women to improve inclusivity.

“Collaborating with Amalitech for us, really grants access to beautiful talents that are trained like in tech expertise, and that can close our gap there. And also to give something to society to help create jobs in an ecosystem, I think, is just a brilliant vision that we want to be part of. You are definitely reaching a hard topic of mind, which is promoting young women and the youth in particular, and that is a must for society,” she said.