With the emergence of new media that are fundamentally interactive, we now have the opportunity to change the learning landscape once and forever, and we better do it now, before it is too late. As long as the developing regions do not have internal capabilities to distribute, repair and maintain the technologies that they use for educational purposes, they will remain in the position dependent on support from external 'experts' and funding agencies for configuring their educational systems in the present and the future. This sustains the conditions at the root of the problems in international development and education. The funding bodies that provide the financial support for the development and implementation of educational technologies in developing regions should not be stakeholders in this process. This presents a missed opportunity.
Building centrally controlled Internet portals on a global scale is a lost cause.