Hole in the Wall:A Computer Project

NIIT had initially given the project a more scientific-sounding name,"Minimally Invasive Education",but it was a newspaper article that first christened it Hole in the Wall,recalls NIIT Chairman Rajendra S.Pawar.Mitra and his colleagues set up further Holes in the Wall in the town of Shivpuri,Madhya Pradesh,and the village of Madansuti,Uttar Pradesh,where the children spoke no English at all.Our children can't even plough a field ,"said the village's adults."How are they going to use this English machine?"--a reference to the fact that no search engine operated in Hindi.
HIWs in countries such as Cambodia,Uganda,Mozambiqueand Nigeria,gifted by the Government of India,have also been a success.
The Hole in the Wall has won dr.sugata Mitra and NIIT many awards , includingDigitalOpportunity Awardat the World Congress on Information Technology,2008.And ,though administered by NIIT,it takes up much of Mitra's time.But he has never made any money from it.