Lebanon is finally seeking to leapfrog into digitally empowered spheres

ENAR

It may be Lebanon’s best bet for a long-term economic future. This underused economic resource has been idling for over 20 years. It is not of fossil origin or other conventional finite resource. Built entirely on the strength of human ingenuity and collaboration, this resource now appears ready for another attempt at making it in the real world—rather than living exclusively on the extremely patient pages of government strategy plans and ministerial Power Point presentations. It is the new “new economy,” or more precisely the geo-economic sphere shaped by the combined implementation of first-in-history digital transformation and cybersecurity cycles. This emerging community of transnational spheres, the best thing since the invention of the internet, could provide much more to Lebanon than the country would achieve by any national implementation of an e-government project or more perfect incarnation of e-commerce in domestic markets. In 2019, governmental efforts to activate the digital