Professor Sugata MItra put up a computer-screen in a hole in a wall in some Indian villages. He attached the keyboard and touchscreen next to it and just let it be. Hundreds of childers would come and started to interact with the computer, even when they didn’t know any english. They learned parts of it and lot’s of other things during the way. From 1999 to 2004 he repeated the experiment all over India. He shows some beautiful movies showing Indian children interacting with a computer for the first time. The most important conclusion is that his experiments show that children can selfinstruct themselves in learning to use a computer, irrespective of who or where they are.

Some other findings:
- Computers and the internet must be provided to them in safe, public space, that they associate with play. If you put
- Between 200 to 300 children can share one computer effectiviley to become computer literate in 3 months
- The setup costs 3 US cents per day to use. 30 dollar in three years would
- Some design Playground computers has been designed with some typical things: the computer stand is put low in the wall with low benches in front of it (so that adults have a hard time using it), a lot a fans stand on the computer to cool it from the outside, it has a 6-8 hours of powerbackup

Mitra ends with a great quote: If we can’t help them, give them the means to help themselves.