For an entire month, our investigative reporters tried to answer a painfully simple question: is Lebanon using its fiber optic backbone for data traffic? The result — we still don’t know. It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! Even the minister might not know. Instead, there are people hiding something, and I can only conclude that it’s their own ignorance. It is 2015. We should have installed and started using fiber optics many years ago. Investing in information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure is a proven GDP booster. Look at Ireland. The emerald isle’s transformation from a failing industrial economy to a tech hub should be something both policy makers and the board of IDAL are ceaselessly trying to emulate. Instead, our country’s leaders and chief promoter are letting opportunity after opportunity pass by, taking our best and brightest along for the ride. So why is nobody
