Sam George unveils plan to connect 48 government data registries for AI-driven planning
Communications Minister Sam George has announced a plan to connect 48 government data registries into a unified national hub to enable AI-driven planning. The initiative is positioned as a foundational step in Ghana's digital governance and AI infrastructure agenda.
Data Hub: the gap between a minister's vision and 48 registries that actually talk to each other
Sam George's example is genuinely compelling — health data showing maternal mortality 12% above the national average in a community demanding a road. That's a real argument for evidence-driven spending over campaign promises.
But the hard part isn't the vision. It's that Ghana's 48 public registries currently sit in separate systems, many of them inconsistent, incomplete, or simply not built to share data with anyone.
Connecting them isn't a policy announcement — it's a years-long technical project. The question worth asking is whether the hub has a delivery plan behind it, or whether this is the kind of initiative that sounds transformative on a panel stage and stalls quietly in a procurement process.
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