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Evaluation of an application for managing microcredits in education

Published: 11 March 2012 Publication History

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One of the major problems in developing countries is minority access to higher education. Traditional scholarships usually focus on paying eventually tuition fees or bringing brilliant students to develop countries. Additionally, these systems used to be opaque and, consequently, a corruption source. We propose a system of student loans to pay tuition fees in exchange for work. We also provide UBURYO. It is the FOSS, that we have developed, to manage this loan system in a simple, trustworthy, fair and efficient way. We deployed the loan system in the University of Ngozi (UNG, Burundi). A shallow evaluation demonstrates that system sustainability is feasible.

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  • (2014)Looking for sustainable software for education in developing countries2014 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)10.1109/EDUCON.2014.6826248(1108-1111)Online publication date: Apr-2014
  • (2012)UBURYO: Open source software for managing microcredits in educationProceedings of the 2012 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201052(1-8)Online publication date: Apr-2012

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      ACM DEV '12: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Symposium on Computing for Development
      March 2012
      154 pages
      ISBN:9781450312622
      DOI:10.1145/2160601

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      • (2014)Looking for sustainable software for education in developing countries2014 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)10.1109/EDUCON.2014.6826248(1108-1111)Online publication date: Apr-2014
      • (2012)UBURYO: Open source software for managing microcredits in educationProceedings of the 2012 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201052(1-8)Online publication date: Apr-2012

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