The annual TED prize, handed out by organisers of the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, has gone Dr SugataMitra, from Newcastle University.
The use of technology in education in emergencies is also on the agenda with guest speaker SugataMitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University (UK).
Then there is SugataMitra, recent winner of the 2013 TED Prize, whose serious doubting of modern education drove him to provide computers to kids struggling in slums to let them teach themselves.