An Insource system for access to donation programs for the needy in Kenya
Date
2020
Authors
Odhiambo, John Oduor
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Publisher
Strathmore University
Abstract
With the current information age, most people and organizations seek help and also
reach out to help needy individuals via various social media channels such as Facebook,
Twitter and Instagram. People also tend to volunteer and help as individuals in
whatever way they can be it donating a kilogram of rice or some small amount of cash.
Some people have excess food they want to throw away or would like to offer
assistance. Some organization tend to set up mode of payment in donation such as
Mpesa paybill option especially where a huge amount of fund is needed to be raised.
It is a challenge on how to effectively spread the information since most organizations
use media sources while individuals rely on the word of mouth (tell a friend to tell a
friend) and also making it difficult for one to tell if the program is genuine. Therefore,
the information is limited to mostly individuals who share the same social media
platforms. Also, platforms such as social media have issues such as invalid information
dissemination.
A Web-based system can be developed to address this issue. The online platform
should allow various interested organizations or individuals to register and let others
know of their operation. The system should also allow organizations to post the various
products or service they are offering. This would be easier to reach out to the targeted
public under one platform. The methodology to be implemented will be RAD since it
requires less time to understand and implement and also gives a high quality output.
The programming language to be used is C# since it has vast frameworks that support
web based development. MySQL is the preferred database language which is to be
implemented using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Server as the database
environment which is mostly used in the industry
Description
An information System documentation Submitted to the Faculty of School of Computing and Engineering Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of a Degree in Business Information Technology
Keywords
Insource system, Donation programs, needy