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Computadores para Educar / Tecnologías para AprenderNational program created by CONPES 3063 (1999) and operating since 2000: it collects and refurbishes donated equipment, delivers it to public school campuses and trains teachers in the pedagogical use of ICT. Subject of one of the most cited edtech RCTs in the world (Barrera-Osorio and Linden 2009): equipment provision alone had little effect on learning due to lack of pedagogical integration, a finding that redirected the emphasis toward teacher training. In 2025-2026 it was relaunched as Tecnologías para Aprender, with innovation labs and a focus on AI.Hole-in-the-Wall / Minimally Invasive Education (HiWEL)Experiment started in 1999 by Sugata Mitra (NIIT) in Kalkaji, New Delhi: freely accessible computers embedded in walls so that children could learn on their own (Minimally Invasive Education). It was institutionalized in 2001 as HiWEL, a NIIT + IFC joint venture, which reported ~300 learning stations and 300,000 children. Independent evidence documented sustainability failures (Arora 2010): Almora died from vandalism, Hawalbagh went inactive in 2007. The official site hole-in-the-wall.com is down; NIIT Foundation claims to maintain 200+ stations, a self-reported figure without independent verification.eVidyaloka - digital classrooms with remote volunteer teachersNGO founded in Bengaluru in January 2011 by Satish Viswanathan and Venkat Sriraman that sets up digital classrooms in rural public schools with teacher shortages and connects them by videoconference with volunteers from around the world, who teach science, mathematics and English in the regional language. As of 2025 it reports 17 states, 90 districts, 950+ schools and 200,000 children impacted. Since 2024-2025 it collaborates with Microsoft on the BRAIN program to bring AI courses to 300 rural schools in seven states.DIKSHA - national digital infrastructure for school educationIndia's national school education platform (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing), launched in September 2017 and operated by NCERT/CIET under the Ministry of Education. Built on Sunbird, open source infrastructure (MIT license) seeded by EkStep Foundation. Adopted by 35+ states and territories: multilingual content repository, QR-energized textbooks and large-scale teacher training (NISHTHA). As of June 2026 it reports 22.5 million users and 5.75 billion learning sessions. It was the backbone of remote learning during COVID-19.Kio Kit (BRCK Education)A digital classroom in a box designed and manufactured in Kenya by BRCK: a rugged case with 40 shockproof Kio tablets, wireless/solar charging and a local server with offline curricular content, for schools without reliable electricity or internet. Launched in 2015, it was deployed in several countries and won design awards. BRCK set it aside around 2017-2018 and today the company focuses on voice infrastructure; the education product no longer exists.Aprende.org (Fundación Carlos Slim)Open and free platform of the Fundación Carlos Slim launched on June 15, 2016. It integrates education, culture, job training (Capacitate para el Empleo, PruebaT, Khan Academy in Spanish) and health, with its own content and content from MIT OCW, edX, Coursera, Udacity and UNAM. Browsing at no data cost on Telcel networks. As of 2026 it reports tens of millions of cumulative beneficiaries (Capacitate para el Empleo alone reports 424 courses and over 13 million students), with use in Mexico and other Latin American countries.