Uburyo : Delivering of a Sustainable System of Loans for Education : Volume I y II

Integrating a Grants Manager and an Employment Bureau Uburyo, a sustainable mini-loans system, will help academic institutions from developing countries to administrate subventions in order to grow economically and get more and more students

UBURYO: open source software for managing microcredits in education

One of the major problems in developing countries is minority access to higher education. Traditional scholarships usually focus on paying tuition fees for bringing brilliant students to developed countries (from where they seldom return). But local grants seldom target the more needy students. We propose a system of student loans to pay tuition fees in exchange for technical work. This appears to be a satisfactory and sustainable solution. We also provide UBURYO (a Kirundi word meaning opportunity). UBURYO is the free open source software, that we have developed, to manage this loan system in a simple, trustworthy, fair and efficient way

Desarrollo económico territorial desde el gobierno intermedio: la experiencia del gobierno provincial de Los Ríos, Ecuador

El presente estudio está enfocado analizar cómo ha sido el proceso del desarrollo económico territorial implementado dentro de la provincia de Los Ríos en los últimos cinco años a través de las políticas que han sido diseñadas e implementadas por el Gobierno Intermedio correspondiente. La motivación del estudio surgió a partir de la implicación social que mantienen los sistemas de desarrollo dentro de las economías así como de la experiencia desarrollada por el autor dentro de la gobernabilidad y la planificación de la provincia de Los Ríos durante un período mayor a diez años. El estudio estuvo delimitado entre el año 2012 y 2016, por tanto, las políticas y los resultados aquí descritos están directamente relacionados a las acciones llevadas a cabo por el gobierno riosense y las estadísticas correspondientes a dichos años. Los objetivos perseguidos por la investigación fueron desarrollados de la siguiente manera..

Variabilidad del rendimiento y la calidad de la paja de trigo para la producción de bioenergía en el sudeste bonaerense

La agricultura actual enfrenta el desafío de satisfacer la demanda de alimentos y bioenergía y, a la vez, disminuir su impacto sobre el ambiente. El objetivo de este trabajo fue caracterizar la variabilidad entre cultivares de trigo pan (Triticum aestivum L.) para el rendimiento y la calidad de la paja de trigo para ser utilizada en la producción de energía. Esta caracterización ayudaría a identificar genes y características bioquímicas que optimicen su utilización para la producción de biocombustibles de segunda generación (2G). Se determinaron caracteres agronómicos y parámetros de calidad de muestras de residuos de 36 cultivares de trigo en la Unidad Integrada Balcarce. Se detectó alta variabilidad entre cultivares de trigo, tanto en el rendimiento como en la calidad de la biomasa para su utilización como fuente de biocombustibles 2G. Se identificaron genotipos que combinan alto rendimiento en grano, buena producción de biomasa y atributos de calidad promisorios.Current agriculture faces the challenge of satisfying both food and energy demand while being environmental sustainable. The aim of the current work was to characterize the variability of biomass yield and quality among cultivars of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to be used as bioenergy feedstock. This knowledge will contribute to idenify genes and biochemical features that will promote their utilization as second generation (2G) biofuel feedstock. Agronomical traits and quality paremeters of biomass from 36 cultivars were analyzed at Unidad Integrada Balcarce. Hugh variability both in yield and quality has been detected for its utilization as 2G biofuels feedstock. Genotypes combining high grain yield and biomass production and good quality attributes have been indentified.Fil: Vera, Magdalena. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias AgrariasFil: Lorenzo, Máximo. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (Argentina)Fil: Ramírez, Ignacio. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias AgrariasFil: Pontaroli , Ana Clara. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasFil: Echarte, María Mercedes. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnica

Evaluation of an application for managing microcredits in education

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

An inquiry into the drivers of an entrepreneurial economy: A Bayesian clustering approach

Understanding the worldwide drivers of qualified entrepreneurship is a key issue in economic policy design. To help policy decisions exert their intended impact, we aim to cluster a wide range of countries on the basis of their levels and trends in selfemployment productivity using a finite mixture model applied to a new large dataset of 121 countries covering the period of 1991–2019. Our results point to three groups of high-, medium-, and low-productive means and tendencies, the geographical distribution of which suggests that they can be reinterpreted using the three stages of economic development, namely, innovation-, efficiency-, and factor-driven economies. Notably, we find that widespread digitalization and low unemployment enhance the probability of transitioning into a highly productive cluster. However, we failed to find that industry weight or employment protection legislation strictness serve as determinants in the transition between groups. Suggestive rationales for these results and implications for the entrepreneurship policy agenda are also provided.Funding for open access publishing: Universidad de Huelva/CBUA. The authors acknowledge funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through project PID2020-115183RB-C22; from Junta de Andalucía through grant P20-00733 and Research Group SEJ-487 (Spanish Entrepreneurship Research Group – SERG); and from Research and Transfer Policy Strategy of the University of Huelva 2021. M. Camacho is grateful for the support of grant PID2022-136547NB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033and by FEDER, UE.Departamento de Economía General y Estadístic

Integración de múltiples paradigmas sociológicos en las investigaciones educativas modernas

In the social sciences there are many existing paradigms, throughout history, many thinkers have been given the task of generating positions that each one considers as ideal to understand certain situations, in some cases, for certain researchers, their points of view They are irreconcilable with others, however for others, this conjunction of points of view is possible, in this regard, there are not few who advocate the use of multiple paradigms to understand a particular situation. At the educational level, this unification of points of view also has its defenders. The purpose of this study is to generate a theoretical contribution, which serves as the basis for understanding the poly paradigm of research, and how it has become in modern educational studies. Some macro sociological, micro sociological, as well as integrative paradigms of sociology are analyzed. The particularities of the integrative paradigms are shown and arguments that support the greater use of poly-paradigmatic contexts in the educational area as a strategy to deepen the understanding of certain situations are presented. The different approaches and theoretical concepts are not always diametrically opposed, at present, the studies of complex social and educational situations require a whole set of paradigms that complement each other, and with which enough information can be obtained about the phenomena. studiedEn las ciencias sociales son muchos los paradigmas existentes, a través de la historia, muchos pensadores se han dado a la tarea de generar posturas que cada cual consideran como ideales para entender determinadas situaciones, en algunos casos, para determinados investigadores, sus puntos de vista son irreconciliables con otros, sin embargo para otros, esta conjunción de puntos de vista si es posible, al respecto, no son pocos los que abogan por que el empleo de múltiples paradigmas para entender una situación en particular. A nivel de educación, esta unificación de puntos de vista también tiene sus defensores. Este estudio, tiene por objeto el generar un aporte teórico, que sirva de base para entender la poli paradigmalidad de las investigaciones, y como estas han devenido en los estudios educativos modernos. Se analiza algunos paradigmas macro sociológicos, micro sociológicos, así como, integradores de la sociología. Las particularidades de los paradigmas integradores son mostrados y se exponen argumentos que apoyan la mayor utilización de contextos poli paradigmáticos en el área educativa como estrategia para profundizar en el entendimiento de determinadas situaciones. Los diferentes enfoques y conceptos teóricos no siempre son diametralmente opuestos, en la actualidad, los estudios de complejas situaciones sociales y educativas requiere de todo un conjunto de paradigmas que se complementen entre sí, y con la cual, se pueda obtener suficiente información de los fenómenos estudiado

AFRICA BUILD Portal: developing a social network of African health researchers and educators

One of the main outputs of the project is a collaborative platform which integrates a myriad of research and learning resources. This article presents the first prototype of this platform: the AFRICA BUILD Portal (ABP 1.0). The ABP is a Web 2.0 platform which facilitates the access, in a collaborative manner, to these resources. Through a usable web interface, the ABP has been designed to avoid, as much as possible, the connectivity problems of African institutions. In this paper, we suggest that the access to complex systems does not imply slow response rates, and that their development model guides the project to a natural technological transfer, adaptation and user acceptance. Finally, this platform aims to motivate research attitudes during the learning process and stimulate user?s collaborations