Ghana: Minister for Communications and Digitalisation announced policy requiring government external data to be stored locally in Ghana

On 26 June 2024, the Minister for Communications and Digitalisation announced government plans to relocate all external data hosted in other countries to local data centres in Ghana. This initiative aims to reduce operational costs associated with data storage, management, and retrieval on foreign cloud services. The policy is part of efforts to promote data localisation and encourage global cloud service providers to establish data centres within the country. A validation workshop on data centre and cloud regulation, organised by Smart Africa and the National Information Technology Agency (NITA), was held to gather stakeholder input for an enhanced regulatory framework to support this transition.