For the last 8 years, an interesting experiment in allowing slum-resident children in India to teach themselves how to use the Internet, and what that does to their aspirations, confidence and school behavior, has been conducted by NIIT and its chief of research, Dr. Sugata Mitra. For a fascinating 9 minute video by a reporter who visited in 2002, Rory O'Connor which aired on PBS' Frontline/WORLD, see India - Hole in the Wall.
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