A data Science expert is urging the government to utilise data science in Ghana’s development initiatives to impact positively on the people. Prof. Sagary Nokoe says policies like Free Senior High School education will make more difference if the vulnerable are targeted for support. He was addressing the subject at a statistics and data science conference in Kumasi. Data Science involves collecting, analyzing and interpreting large amounts of information. Even though Professor Nokoe lauded the government for equitable distribution of development and social interventions, he, however, believes the government will save more resources, if data science is employed in this.   “It’s good initiative on the part of government to try to do things for everyone. Not all families can afford education, some families can afford. So if those people who can’t pay are targeted that will be savings for the government and that is the science of data science,” he advised. The conference is under the theme, ‘Sustainable Development Goals in Ghana: the Role of Statistics and Data Science. Prof. Nokoe called for re-classification of the country’s socio-economic classes to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. The maiden meeting is meant to promote statistics and data science to enhance interdisciplinary and inter-institutional networking of experts in the field. Participants are expected to come out with a road map to design a new curriculum to drive undergraduate data science training in Africa. Professor Atinuke Olusola Adebanji is Head of Statistics and Actuarial Science Department at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. He hints of a market-driven curriculum. “We want to know how we can tweak the curriculum from what it is presently, which seems to be a bit rigid, for it to be more relevant to the market and to be more relevant to what the SDGs are requiring from us as developing nation,” she said. KNUST and Kumasi Technical University are collaborating in the training, with support from the International Biometric Society and Ghana Statistical Association.