Libya: $250million deal to buy laptops for all schoolchildren http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093130546 MENAFN - 12/10/2006
(MENAFN) - The government of Libya and an American nonprofit group have reached an agreement worth $250 million to provide low-priced laptop computers to Libya's 1.2 million schoolchildren, The New York Times reported. The project, due by June 2008, would provide the country with 1.2 million computers, a server in each school, a team of technical advisers, satellite internet service and other infrastructure and could make Libya the first nation to enable all school-age children to connect to the Internet through educational computers. With the support of the United Nations Development Program, the deal seeks to provide laptops to all children in schools all around the world at a cost of about $100 per computer. It has also reached tentative purchase agreements with Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria and Thailand. Moreover, the machines will be equipped with hand cranks or foot pedals, so that children can use them when the electricity is expensive or unavailable. The machines will also have wireless network access and run on an open-source operating system, such as Linux. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TELECOM-CITIES Current searchable archives (Feb. 1, 2006 to present) at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Old searchble archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
