After the Ministry of Education issued a decision today to suspend studies for some groups, and direct schools to distance education, there is a high need for strong, stable, safe, and easy-to-use platforms for students in the primary, middle, and secondary stages, and to prepare for the event of any closure, God forbid. 

Accordingly, Google Workspace for Education services were operated as a free initiative provided by Google globally, and with the help of the Libyan Spider Company, and these services were accepted within the scope of Libyan schools sch.ly, which allows the school to create the necessary environment to create classrooms, classes, and lectures for all students and teachers, In easy, simple and freeways, without the need for any external party or assistance. All these services come within the Workspace for fundamental education, which was previously available free of charge to universities only, and today it is available to schools with an unlimited number of students and schools, whether private or public. 

All the school administration must do is fill out a domain name registration form for the school, prepare a stamped correspondence from the school administration or educational institution, and the domain name will be activated. Or you can write to us at the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology, and we and our partners, the Libyan Spider Company, will cooperate with you to facilitate procedures, technical and advisory work, training and awareness, 100% free of charge, an initiative from us and a social responsibility. 

We hope that you will share it with education supervisors, public and private schools, to benefit from this environment that will reflect positively on students and the educational process. 

For any inquiries, you can contact us via email at sch@technology.ly. 

Educational institutions digitization team 

After the great success achieved by the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology during the year 2021, through its various projects in cooperation with the Libyan Spider Company, the organization signed an expanded community cooperation agreement this evening, Thursday 12/30/2021. 

The memorandum included cooperation in the field of technical and technical consultations, website design, cloud services, community support, contribution to the preparation of technical reports, contribution to a project to support local organizations technically, and technical awareness for various components of society. 

This agreement comes as an expansion of cooperation between us, after the great success that the Libyan Spider Company contributed during 2021, by designing and hosting all the organization’s cloud services and contributing to the technical aspects of the legislation and regulations proposed by the organization. 

The organization’s work team prepared a report (technically – commercially – socially – financially – competitively – professionally) about Al-Madar Al-Jadeed Company, highlighting the company’s most prominent achievements and services, its growth and development, the most important obstacles and problems it faces, and technical and professional errors, with a general evaluation of the company for the year 2021. . 

You can view the report via the following link:  

Almadar Report

To General Authority for Telecommunication and Information

To Libyan Audit Bureau 

To the Administrative Control Authority 

After Greetings… 

We salute you, the patriots and the competencies working up to this moment to preserve the telecommunications sector, and we wish the rest success in improving the telecommunications sector and services, and we are always of assistance to you. 

Noting that the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology was registered on 8/25/2020 with declaration No. 60/2020 and has membership in the Internet Society. It has worked with many governmental institutions, companies and local communities, in addition to the work of the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology team. It is a link between government telecommunications companies, private companies, and society. The organization’s various teams also try to fill the gaps to enhance cooperation between various parties in the Libyan state. 

Based on Article 26 of the regulations organizing the work of the Civil Society Commission, approved by Presidential Council Resolution No. 286 of 2019, which gives the organization the right to obtain information related to its activities in a manner that does not violate confidentiality, with the right to publish information and reports, the right to evaluate state institutions, and submit proposals. To develop it, some points became clear to us from the monitoring of the organization’s teams, consultants, partners, and think tanks of the work of the Communications and Informatics Corporation, which are: 

• Failure to activate VoLTE technology for various companies providing call services, which contributes to improving the quality and bandwidth of communications and reducing pressure on previous generations of networks. 

• Lack of support for government companies in concluding partnerships to launch MVNO services to be a companion product to telecommunications companies services and open doors to competition. 

• The frequency spectrum is not regulated according to the regulations of an approved organization, which has caused many infringements, in addition to the fact that the frequency spectrum is a sovereign resource for the Libyan state. 

• The stability of licenses in a way that made them not keeping pace with the development of technologies and how they work commercially and technically. 

• Lack of seriousness in preventing counterfeit jamming and repeating devices, which has caused a deterioration in the services provided to citizens, and a commercial and technical imbalance among telecommunications companies (particularly voice calls). 

• The executive regulations of Telecommunications Law No. 22 of 2010 and its accompanying regulations were not approved for a period of more than ten years, with deficiencies in performance and communication with the Council of Ministers. 

• The Commission does not participate with institutions, companies, and think tanks in preparing the general email policy. 

• The Authority takes a position of reaction against modern technologies such as fifth generation technology, data centers, and others. 

• The lack of a clear, general strategy, and the absence of real stages. 

• The inability to protect private companies in their business, competitiveness, and organization of work among them. 

• The inability to adopt the status of judicial police officer to detect violations. 

• Weakness in publishing reports, information, bulletins, periodicals and strategies. 

• The lack of the Authority’s role in forums, conferences, workshops, forums and exhibitions as an effective organizing body in the communications and information sector.
• The very high staffing of the Communications and Informatics Authority, with no productivity indicators or outputs for this huge number in this sensitive facility. 

• Lack of regulation of the work of providers of technologies, technical solutions, equipment, and devices, which has caused counterfeit, used and refurbished equipment to enter several sensitive and important facilities in the country. 

• Lack of cooperation with various ministries on technical issues or establishing partnerships that support digital transformation. 

• The Communications and Informatics Authority is isolated from the state in providing specializations and consultations. 

• Not combating the monopoly that has existed for three decades in the telecommunications sector. Rather, the Authority has strengthened this monopoly by not deterring some major government companies from entering various sections of technology and communications other than their specialization. 

• Failure to direct the necessary technical and legal correspondence to organize work in various state institutions, including cybersecurity recommendations, use of licensed software, and awareness of internal regulations. 

• The lack of a clearly defined strategy for addressing its projects and postal services. 

• Failure to update the e-government strategy and Libya’s digital or electronic projects. 

• Some bodies, institutions, ministries, and companies infringed on the authority’s powers, because of the absence of public relations, communication, integrated work, and the embodiment of the spirit of cooperation in institutional work. In fact, most state institutions avoided authority. 

• Failure to involve civil society organizations in the technical, advisory, field and media work that the Commission was unable to do. 

• There is no tangible practical benefit from the annual report prepared by the Authority, as the annual report for 2020 lacked any actual tangible result, such as: legislation, laws, prevention of violations, reports, indicators, strategies, or partnerships, and it contained periodic meetings, visits, or age percentages. Preparing employees, their classifications, and their locations, and many challenges, obstacles, and procedural and implementation problems that are at the core of the work of the Communications and Informatics Authority. 

Therefore, we forward this memorandum to you in the hope that you will correct the course of this ancient institution, consider its jurisdiction, and support it technically, legally, and sovereignly. We ask you to consider these observations and take the necessary measures regarding them, and the work teams of the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology will be ready with all their capabilities to cooperate with you in everything you do. It serves the country’s interest and develops the authority’s performance. 

We thank you for your kind cooperation in advance 

Amin Younis Salih 

Chairman of Board of Directors 

Libyan Organization for Information Technology and Telecommunication

Last Tuesday morning, November 16, 2021, the first founding meeting was held with the heads and owners of major Internet providing companies in Libya, numbering 14 participating companies, at the Corinthia Hotel under the sponsorship, organization and initiative of the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology. The founding meeting was attended by the following companies: 

• Masarat Information Technology and Electronic Financial Services Joint Stock Company. 
• Libyan Spider Company. 
• Tadawel Company.
• Giga Communications and Technology Company. 
• Alhadatha International Communications and Information Technology Company. 
• Connection ION Company. 
• Ozon company. 
• First Net Trans-Saharan Company. 
• LNET Company. 
• Orange Libya Company. 
• Oxygen company. 
• Libya AbrajCompany. 
• Awal Company. 
• Rawafed Company. 

The meeting discussed the establishment of the Libyan Technology Companies Council, some of the problems facing Internet service providers, pricing policies in the country, and ways to urgently address the current crises at the initiative of the Libyan organization. Note that participation and membership are open to companies working in the field of technology, for the highest representation before the relevant authorities. 

To join, please contact the following email: companies.board@technology.ly

We thank our friend and active member of the organization, Muhammad Al-Zuhdi, who was and still is an example of cooperation and dedication, in the work he provided voluntarily or professionally, such as his creativity on National Information Technology Day, his design of the organization’s logo when it was founded, and his preparation of the presentation of the organization’s projects for the year 2021, in addition to his design of many Among the organization’s logos, such as the slogan: Libyan Journal of Technology and Visual Identities. 

It is noteworthy that the creator Muhammad Zuhdi, head of the creativity department at Funoon Enterprise, designed the National Day NTD postage stamp approved by the Libya Post Company, which was presented to the Universal Postal Union (UPU) within the Universal Postal Coding Department, which documents stamps, the name of its designer, and postal history across generations. Distribution of the postage stamp designed by the creator will be available in all postal departments. 

Many thanks to you, Mr. Muhammad Zuhdi, for everything you provide for us, and words of gratitude do not do you justice. 

Libyan Organization for Information Technology and Telecommunications team 

Based on the agreement signed between the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology and the Al-Bunya Organization for Technology and Innovation, we have completed preparing Microsoft 365 cloud services for the Al-Bunya Organization and training them on it. It is a service cloud designed to help the organization accomplish its important administrative work, communicate remotely, and manage teams and projects with high productivity. Using Office 365 cloud apps, with advanced security, encryption and storage solutions. 

This support is provided by Microsoft through the Libyan Organization for Information and Communications Technology and in cooperation with the Libyan Spider Company. This project is one of the projects of the organization’s annual plan to provide technology and digitization solutions to five civil society organizations operating in Libya, and to train the organization’s officials and members.