Evaluation of an application for managing microcredits in education

Abstract

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.

UBURYO: Open source software for managing microcredits in education

“…From January to October 2010, to be exact. The results of the original system deployment are fully analysed in [25]. Different variables were defined and measured during this evaluation.…”