Hole In The Wall: bringing computers to the slums [2000]

This is the project that influenced me to start my NGO (http://savethem.net)...we're buying computers and building a library in a village in India, and teaching the children how to use them. Actually, it's been very little teaching...the kids tend to learn how to use the computers themselves.

It's actually quite amazing to see first hand how the children learn to open MSPaint and within minutes have taught the other kids how to draw pictures.

Now we are building a library for an entire village and letting anyone use computers, whenever they want. Very rewarding!

The official url for the project is http://hole-in-the-wall.com/

I had the pleasure of meeting and hearing Mitra present his work at the TTI/Vanguard conf in Rome in 2008. He showed a video with kids learning to use the mouse, and then one child showing another what he learned.. and they would be there for hours. Really remarkable stuff.