Dubbed Hope City, it will be built on empty land and will employ approximately 50,000 people, and provide housing for 25,000.
The head of local technology giant RLG Communications, Roland Agambire, has revealed that his company was investing in Hope City with the aim of making Ghana globally competitive.
"What we are trying to do here is to develop the apps [applications] from scratch," he said. "This will enable us to have the biggest assembling plant in the world to assemble various products - over one million within a day.”.
The IT hub would be made up of six towers, including a 75-storey, 270m-high tower, "the highest in Africa", RLG Communications says on its website.
News about Hope City comes a matter of weeks after Kenya unveiled plans to build an "Africa's Silicon Savannah" within 20 years at a cost of $14.5 billion. Kenya's Konza Technology City, about 60 kilometres from the capital, Nairobi, is expected to create more than 200,000 jobs by 2030.
