{"id":1679,"date":"2006-10-15T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2006-10-15T14:27:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T14:27:56","slug":"2006-10-15-laptops-for-lybians-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Laptops for Lybians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/57B1DED4FCDE4185A8879B7946C9EAF3.jpg\" height=\"151\" width=\"190\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"57B1Ded4Fcde4185A8879B7946C9Eaf3\" \/>After the green book, Qadhafi launches the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/FDFF80E0-0E4B-4825-A1E7-5A413C03157B.htm\">green laptop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the project scheduled to be completed by June 2008, Libya could become the first nation in which all school-age children are connected to the internet through educational computers, Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop per Child project, told the The New York Times on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The $250 million deal, reached on Tuesday, would provide the nation with 1.2 million computers, a server in each school, a team of technical advisers, satellite internet service and other infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The One Laptop per Child project, which has the support of the United Nations Development Programme, aims to provide laptops to school-aged children worldwide for about $100 each. It has reached tentative purchase agreements with Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria and Thailand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like anything with cranks. I wish my Powerbook had a crank for those long flights. But, while this idea sounds just fine, perhaps Muammar Qadhafi will then, I don&#8217;t know, allow freedom of speech in his country so that people can use those laptops to start blogs? Just a thought.<\/p>\n<p>(I have been thinking of  starting a sub-blog to follow Middle East related technology and science news. Especially focused on technology that&#8217;s especially helpful in this region, for whatever reason. Is anyone interested? And yes, I&#8217;m a geek.)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.media.squarespace.com\/production\/92960\/5627479\/wp-content\/\/57B1DED4FCDE4185A8879B7946C9EAF3.jpg\" height=\"151\" width=\"190\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"57B1Ded4Fcde4185A8879B7946C9Eaf3\" \/>After the green book, Qadhafi launches the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/FDFF80E0-0E4B-4825-A1E7-5A413C03157B.htm\">green laptop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the project scheduled to be completed by June 2008, Libya could become the first nation in which all school-age children are connected to the internet through educational computers, Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop per Child project, told the The New York Times on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe $250 million deal, reached on Tuesday, would provide the nation with 1.2 million computers, a server in each school, a team of technical advisers, satellite internet service and other infrastructure.<br \/>\nThe One Laptop per Child project, which has the support of the United Nations Development Programme, aims to provide laptops to school-aged children worldwide for about $100 each. It has reached tentative purchase agreements with Argentina, Brazil, Nigeria and Thailand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like anything with cranks. I wish my Powerbook had a crank for those long flights. But, while this idea sounds just fine, perhaps Muammar Qadhafi will then, I don&#8217;t know, allow freedom of speech in his country so that people can use those laptops to start blogs? Just a thought.<br \/>\n(I have been thinking of  starting a sub-blog to follow Middle East related technology and science news. Especially focused on technology that&#8217;s especially helpful in this region, for whatever reason. Is anyone interested? And yes, I&#8217;m a geek.)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}