U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren

You'd think if Libya (Libya?!) can do this, we could too...

The government of Libya reached an agreement on Tuesday with One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008.

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U.S. Group Reaches Deal to Provide Laptops to All Libyan Schoolchildren

By JOHN MARKOFF

Published: October 11, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/world/africa/11laptop.html

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 10 — The government of Libya reached an agreement on Tuesday with One Laptop Per Child, a nonprofit United States group developing an inexpensive, educational laptop computer, with the goal of supplying machines to all 1.2 million Libyan schoolchildren by June 2008.