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Problem:

  • Half of the people in India grow up being illiterate.​
  • But some have the world's most advanced technology in New Delhi.

New Technologies:

  • Providing children free unlimited access to computers

1. Pros:

  • ​It will help the children of India become more intelligent.​
  • Also it will help increase the literacy rate in India.

2. Cons:

  • ​The negative outcome from this experiment is that it is very expensive.​
  •  Since it is very expensive it will be quite impossible to provide every poor neighborhood with computers.

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​Organizations:

  • Computer scientist Dr. Sugata Mitra ​
  • Dr. Mitra came up with an experiment while directing a film on global poverty in order to see what could be done to end it.

Effectiveness:

  • The children of India who are being used for this experiment are becoming more intelligent.​
  • Children ended up teaching themselves how to work the computers.

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