Signs of positive disruptions in the Lebanese tech ecosytem

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Moving counter-cyclically to conventional business wisdom and exhibiting disregard for old boundaries are attributes of enterprising minds, of those daring people who start pursuing an economic opportunity without regard for the current resources at their disposal. In the case of Lebanon in 2020, one could add that these have to be enterprising minds without regard for an absence of resources taken for granted in most countries and without fear of total financial uncertainty. The Lebanese tech entrepreneurship ecosystem, first built in the 2010s around the mental assets of the country’s entrepreneurs but this year in need of being rebuilt for the 2020s and beyond, appears to be emerging from several months of functional paralysis. Encouraging signals of the system’s positive disruption are converging this summer from the avenues of technology, finance, orientation, new projects, and ecosystem self-organization.    These five confluents are, one by one: On the tech side the