I finally got the time to go pick them up last Friday due to the fact that I was covering the 14th Edward Bouchet Workshop which was held at the Frederick Maafo Memorial Building, University of Ghana, Legon from the 21st-25th July, 2008. It was organised by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMS) whose Director is Prof. F.K.A. Allotey. I was at the Workshop in my capacity as the Webmaster for IMS and needed to get some information about the workshop to update the IMS website with.

I’m currently putting finishing touches to my marketing material after which I will launch the marketing campaign for my Web Development Company.

I’ll keep you posted on events. Wishing you all a fruitful week.

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.

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

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.