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Improving scholarship management application for a non-governmental organization
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2017-04
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This project was carried out for an NGO which aims to improve the lives of children
and their families by providing scholarships to children who do not have the finances to get a
quality education. This NGO’s scholarship process was automated in order to improve the
scholarship management process. Although the software was successfully deployed, it is not as
widely used as expected and this threatens its success. Solving this problem is essential because
subsequent versions and new functionalities implemented obviously hinge on the software’s
usage. As such, this project targets software deployment, a critical activity of software
development process, as one of the possible causes of the lack of usage. Consequently, this
project outlined the best practices of software deployment from research that can be applied for
the deployment of the functionalities in this project and of future releases.
Another objective of this project was to add functionalities to the existing software to
cater for a wider user base. The functionalities that were added are for donors of the organization
in order to improve accountability and transparency and also to provide vital information for
donors for decision-making. The functionalities include being able to view a list of students
under a particular grant, viewing the various payments of the grant across the years amongst
others. These will also include graphs that will display various information regarding the
payments, communities and students.
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Applied project submitted to the Department of Computer Science, Ashesi University College, in partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, April 2017
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non-governmental organization (NGO), scholarship management system, software design