According to the Minister of National Education Nesmy Manigat, it will soon be possible for users to place their application online, to pay and to withdraw diplomas, certificates and authenticated and legalized transcripts for which applicants waste a lot of time and money in the current process. Coming from all over the country, some people often spend more money on transport than on the service itself, underlines Minister Manigat who considers the establishment of this platform to be one of his priorities, stating "We are on the point of settling all this [...] It will not take much time given that the Departmental Bureau of State Examinations (BUNEXE) is already very advanced in the construction of this platform which will ultimately require reorganizations in order to to integrate into the electronic landscape of each of the institutions, members of this partnership."

For the commissioning of the electronic payment platform, the Ministry is working on the development of a partnership with the mobile telephone companies, Natcom, and Digicel and the Banque Nationale de Crédit (BNC).

The Digicel delegation that took part in the first meeting was led by Jean-Philippe Brun, Director General of the institution. That of Natcom was under the direction of Trung Le Thanh, deputy to the General Manager. The BNC team was led by Margareth J.B. Bonhomme, from the Research and Development Department. Minister Manigat was assisted, among others, by his Chief of Staff Jacques Abraham, the Director General of the National Office for Partnership in Education (ONAPE) Hervé Boursiquot and the Coordinator of the Education and Quality Pole, Joseph Job Maurice. This meeting made it possible to lay the foundations for cooperation, the objective of which is to enable users to obtain the required documents in record time.

Following this meeting, the Minister Manigat and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Généus discussed the need to allow Haitians in the diaspora to be able to legalize, after authentication by the Ministry of National Education, these academic documents. The two Ministers are of the opinion that Haitian nationals, regardless of their host country, will be able to benefit from this service.

HL/ S/ HaitiLibre