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Brazilian kids get first $100 laptops
News Other countries that intend to equip children with the low-cost laptops include Libya, which has 1.2 million on order. Children in Brazil will be the first to get their hands on the much talked about $100 laptop. [27 Nov 2006]
$100 laptop prototype goes on show
News By the end of the second quarter of 2007, it plans to have a version of the laptop ready to ship to children in Argentina, Brazil, Libya and Nigeria. At that time, it plans to ship 1.2 million laptops to children and teachers in Libya, and roughly... [17 Nov 2006]
Enemies of the internet named and shamed
News Libya, the Maldives and Nepal were removed from the list this year as a result of fact-finding missions that revealed there were no longer any jailed cyber-dissidents, said Pain, who added that censorship of the internet in these countries has... [08 Nov 2006]
Colonel Gaddafi buys 1.2 million cheap laptops
News Libya will reportedly be dishing out $100 laptops to its schoolchildren, after signing a deal with Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. According to The New York Times, silicon.com Agenda Setter Negroponte has revealed Libya... [12 Oct 2006]
'Tunisia not fit to host world web summit'
News The news came on the heels of several recent crackdowns on political bloggers by governments in China, Egypt and Libya. A global summit scheduled this week to address a power struggle over the internet is getting off to a rocky start in the eyes of... [15 Nov 2005]
Libya jails blogger
News Libya has sentenced a blogger to a year and a half in prison after he criticised the government in his online articles, according to Human Rights Watch. In the Libya case, a court in Tripoli convicted blogger Abd al-Raziq al-Mansuri, 52, on charges... [07 Nov 2005]
Free Iraq asks for its domain name
News Libya, on the other hand, has been in dispute with its domain manager, LyDomains, for over two years, and its .ly domain has been inactive since April. Newly independent Iraq has asked for control of its .iq domain name. [30 Jun 2004]
Lax US encryption export laws will benefit criminals warns Reno
News Under the new proposals, companies will have to apply for a license to export encryption products and the export to seven countries - Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria - will be banned. [17 Sep 1999]
