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Libya & the $100 Laptop

2006-10-11T21:24:02Z

While Libya may not be the best place in the world to call home, it certainly looks a lot better to the 1.2 million children that will get $100 laptops courtesy of the Libyan government.

While we here at home are faced with many, many more expensive PC choices, the Libyan kids will join the PC-powered generation. (John Markoff's fine reporting can be read here.)

Not too take anything away from spreading wealth and accessibility to make our world a truly smaller, closer, friendlier and better place, but wouldn't it be nice if there was program like this in the U.S. where our kids could get $100 laptops, too?

How about this paragraph from the New York Times article:

It is possible ... that Libya will become the first nation in the world where all school-age children are connected to the Internet through educational computers. “The U.S. and Singapore are not even close.”

Comment from Libyan Citizen on 2007-02-23

2007-02-23T08:01:08Z

That will never happen, Qaddafi just has to have a say and an opinion in everything he loves the world spot light, he is full of empty promises, plus still now for they years there is no sign of booming in Libya. one of the main issues in Libya is bureaucracy and every one needs his cut, so they are scaring off local and foreign investors. Qaddafi's regime has ruined 3 generation it will take over 20 years to fix the country and start it from crash.
I can talk forever about the situation in Libya but I'll ended here

Salaam

Comment from Libyan Citizen on 2008-02-25

2008-02-25T21:31:21Z

what do you mean with " Libya may not be the best place in the world to call home"
please some respect to a nation that is older than any of you so called western developed countries.
what makes a home is not its technological advancements, or you so called freedoms.

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? ~Pablo Casals

Comment from jaber elfasi on 2008-09-27

2008-09-27T15:38:10Z

come on man, i live in libya and in top of all that i live in the main city Tripoli,, but there is nothing of what you mentioned in your article, true it was mentioned in the media, but in particular our kids are way suffering from the term "poor in technology", how ever, even what you mentioned about the schools, i was just graduated form the highschool in tripoli by the 2007 and we as the most sofisticated layer of the school years had no access to the internet, yes it was true that we had a computer lab "as a private school" but not every school have a computer lab, nevertheless all schools have no access to the internet, my god what do u think of a university, we don't even have an internet access in our university which i am attending now, that is right that there is some private networks for few users such as staf members of computer science and other department staf, but its to coplicated to persuade the university to give you the internet access, although we do have access in our homes, but i still can't get it why isn't the internet accessable in our university for the public