Remy Edmundson - Sentiments of a Saint

Registrar General’s Department Sit Up

Posted by Remy Edmundson under Business

Yesterday, I went to the Registrar General’s Department with high hopes. Why?
I was going to collect my Certificate of Incorporation and Certificate to Commence Business for my company Integrity Internet Marketing. More about Integrity in another post.
At the office, I was asked to provide either a Voter’s ID Card or Birth Certificate to prove I really was a Ghanaian citizen.
Anticipating such a situation, I had carried along my passport so I gleefully pulled it out for them. I was then asked to make a photocopy of the relevant page in the passport for their records.

After waiting patiently for my certificates, I saw the gentleman coming back empty handed. What?? My heart sank!
I was to come back the following Friday for my certificates because the Director was yet to sign them.
Apparently, the office personnel were waiting for my verification before going ahead to process the documents.
So why wait for me to travel all the way to the premises before asking me to provide such a document. I certainly had my contact number and email on the forms.
Why didn’t they ask me to provide this proof during the application process?
The young man who brought this news certainly couldn’t provide the answers and could only promise to call me if the documents were ready before Friday.
I was just too disappointed to follow up with his superiors.
But I definitely will do so come, Friday the 18th of July.

NBSSI TRAINING PROGRAMME

Posted by Remy Edmundson under Education, Technology

Yesterday brought to a close, a 2 day Internet Training programme which my company Integrity Internet Marketing organised for the Greater Accra Regional(Business Advisory Centers) heads of the National Board For Small Scale Industries.
The dates were Monday, 26th of November and Tuesday 27th November.

The 2 day program which I coordinated, aimed at teaching the BAC heads in using the Internet Effectively in their day to day activities.
The resource person was George Kwabenah Appiah, an independent Strategic Technology Consultant in Ghana. Christopher Bennett, was also present to assist.

On Monday, when we got to the venue of the training, (NBSSI Headquarters in Accra), there was no Internet access from ZipNet, their Internet Service Provider. After fruitless efforts to get the ISP to restore Internet access, we had to move to the Accra Business Advisory Center to use their Dial-Up account.

Since there was network in the building George setup an ad-hoc network so the participants could access the Internet, via his laptop. The training went very well after this, with the participants really enjoying the training.

Yesterday, we went back to the Headquarters again, hoping that the Internet service had been restored. Well, we were in luck.
Despite initial battles with our router, we had another successful training session.

At the end of the training programme, we discussed with the participants how best they could pass on the knowledge gained to their clients.

Here are some photos from the 2 day event.

George Appiah training participants

Gladys and Anthea (Accra and Tema BAC Heads)

Michael and Philomena (Ada and Dodowa BAC Heads)

Gladys and Jonas (Accra and Weija BAC Heads)

Chris helping participants

Remy helping participants

Participants with Training Team

At long last my blog!

Posted by Remy Edmundson under Education, General, Personal Development, Personal Finance, Sports, Technology, Travel

I’ve always put off building my personal website until today and even worse, I dreaded what I was going to write for my first post.

Even though I have to submit a proposal to a client tomorrow afternoon, I managed to squeeze some hours into starting the site, thanks to George’s prompts.

Keep coming back for more of St. Remy’s raves and rants.