Yes, Dr. Mitra was involved in this project too. See this comment by Ed McNierney on the Technology Review article: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/50646

Yes, Dr. Mitra was involved in this project too. See this comment by Ed McNierney on the Technology Review article: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/#lf_comment=41999900 http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506466/given-tablets-bu... Although OLPC initiated and has been managing this experiment, we haven't done it alone. Right from the beginning the project team has included Prof. Sugata Mitra of Newcastle University (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/sugata.mitra http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ecls/staff/profile/sugata.mitra) and Prof. Maryanne Wolf, director of the Tufts University Center for Reading and Language Research (http://ase.tufts.edu/crlr/team/wolf.htm http://ase.tufts.edu/crlr/team/wolf.htm).