Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of
Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University,
England, and a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Professor Mitra works in the areas of cognitive
science, information science and educational technology, and he has a
keen interest in engineering and software development. His current
research interests include technologies for remote and rural
education, distance education, instructional robotics, self-organizing
systems and collaborative systems on the Internet.
Blog Posts
In early 1999, some colleagues and I sunk a computer into the opening of a wall near our office in Kalkaji, New Delhi. The area was located in an expansive slum, with desperately poor people struggling to survive. The screen was visible from the street, and the PC was available to anyone who...
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