How is Internet questioning educational beginning in the developing countries and how this will concern the future of the developed economies? Facing to the limitation of pedagogic resources in certain regions of the world, groups of children could be able to skip the whole school cycle with the use of computers and Internet.
What happens when there is free access to a computer and a child who has never previously seen this feature? After nearly nine years of experiments and fieldwork in rural and poor areas of their homeland, the Indian scientist Sugata Mitra, currently professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, explains how the Internet is challenging the educational principles in developing countries and how this will affect the future of developed economies. His experiments with unsupervised access to public computers by children in remote areas, often called the “hole in the wall” experiments are known throughout the world.

Dr. Mitra has taught and researched computer applications for over 25 years. He was until recently Chief Scientist with NIIT Limited in New Delhi. His contributions include a number of inventions and first-time applications. The database publishing industry in India and Bangladesh, as well as the first applications of digital multimedia and Internet based education in India, are attributed to him. His current interests include Children’s Education, Remote Presence, Self-organizing systems, Cognitive Systems, Physics and Consciousness.