Solar-powered virtual school started in village
Professor Sugata Mitra has started an independent, solar-powered learning lab, ‘School in the Cloud’, in the Korakati village in the Sundarbans, about 110 kms from Kolkata. The lab lets children learn independently by interacting with online ‘grannies’, a group of retired teachers available over Skype. This comes under Mitra’s $1 million TED Prize-funded project on non-conventional education.