It must be because they're green.
So here's the latest news out of Qaddafi-land. Muamar is plunking down $250 million in oil revenues to make Libya the first country in the world to equip all students with a laptop. The gig stems from a newly announced partnership with the MIT-linked $100 One Laptop Per Child project, which provides a computer with a wireless connection, a built-in video camera, an eight-hour battery and a hand crank for recharging batteries for under $150.
Qouth project director Nicholas Negroponte (brother to the head of the Homeland Security Department): “When I met with Qaddafi, it had all the mystique and trimmings expected: middle of the desert, in a tent, 50 degrees C. etc. It took him very little time to find O.L.P.C. appealing as an idea.”
Well, given that Qaddafi has shamelessly promoted his own Green Book to everyone in Libya (there are entire bookstores devoted to the work), he no doubt smells an opportunity with the Green Laptop.
We'll be impressed if Negroponte announces that Qaddafi has also agreed to drop an Internet filtering in Libya. But today at least we're not ready to get too excited. After 36 years in power, the Q-man is too wily to be undermined by a bunch of grade-school laptop toters.
I too wonder how "open" these laptops will be and what content they will have. With only 205,000 Internet users now, the addition of 1.2 million would really shock Libya.
The content may shock us: http://www.olpcnews.com/content/education/o_is_for_oversight.html
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