The Ghana Oceanographic Data Centre (GODC) is the hub of the Ocean Data and Information Exchange Network (ODINAFRICA) project activities in Ghana. It was inaugurated during the first ODINAFRICA National Workshop held in Accra on the 15th and 16th August 2002, during the second phase of the project, ODINAFRICA-II.
GODC is part of a network of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Centres in 40 countries and island states in and around Africa. The host institution for the Project in Ghana is the Marine Fisheries Research Division (MFRD).