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Despite their country\u2019s\u00a0 110,000 square kilometers\u00a0 and 10 million inhabitants, Cubans used to joke 30 years ago that they had the largest country in the world: our population is in Miami, our army is in Angola, and our capital is in Moscow, they\u2019d say. In some ways, Lebanon\u2019s situation\u00a0 (10,000 km2, 4.2 million inhabitants) resembles Cuba\u2019s. The army is in Lebanon, but the population is spread across the globe, the market extends across the Arab world, the economic capitol seems to shift towards Dubai, and its students are increasingly in the U.S., London or Paris.<\/p>\n

Lebanon has many positives. It has a large proportion of highly qualified citizens, initially educated at prestigious institutions like the American University of Beirut, Saint Joseph University and Beirut Arab University, which graduate numerous executives and engineers. Many of which continue their education in high-ranking European and American schools. There is also the entrepreneurial spirit and multiculturalism that has characterized Lebanon since the Phoenicians, and that integration into the Arab world hasn\u2019t minimized.<\/p>\n

Another advantage is that its internal divisions make Lebanon a trans-cultural laboratory, creating people particularly well-suited to understanding interpersonal problems caused by globalization. And when it comes to building a site, in Lebanon you can can easily make it trilingual: English, Arabic and French, as\u00a0 Delphine Edde de Diwanee and Cyril Hadjithomas de Keeward explained.<\/p>\n

Lebanon\u2019s civil society is creating innovative initiatives like the Beirut Green Project, which is attempting to create rooftop green spaces, and\u00a0 Metel Na shelta, reinventing cause pamphlets, and Twattarna.com, which facilitates debate between political powers via Twitter.<\/p>\n

Poor telecom infrastructure<\/strong><\/p>\n

Outside of these strengths, Lebanon suffers. Besides the ever-present threat of war, it has a weak telecom infrastructure, placing it behind Lesotho and Uganda in download speeds, ranking 160th globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a serious obstacle,\u201d says\u00a0 Elie Abou Saad, head of the multimedia and web agency, Creapix.net. But there\u2019s an advantage in that. \u201cIt forces to plan around extreme conditions. It raises the quality of our work, and helps us have a global presence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Lebanon\u2019s small population, it has a competitive advantage similar to that of much larger countries: a vast diaspora of between 12 and 15 million people, from a country that has a population of just over 4 million. The diaspora landed everywhere from Senegal to the U.S. There are more Lebanese in Brazil than in Lebanon. They\u2019re successful in their new homes. Maybe not as successful as Carlos Slim \u2013 the richest man in the world \u2013 but still. They make up a global network, with access to distant markets and, more and more frequently, a funding source for ambitious startups.<\/p>\n

No matter how useful it is, the diaspora doesn\u2019t solve the problem of which markets young companies should target.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe innovation we can create here really doesn\u2019t have platform in Lebanon,\u201d explains\u00a0 Cyril Hadjithomas, head of\u00a0 Keeward.com, a media ecosystem operating in several francophone nations and the U.S., during an informal conversation between a group of local entrepreneurs at\u00a0 Berytech.org, Lebanon\u2019s oldest incubator.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no viable business model that can limit itself only to Lebanon,\u201d Nicolas Rouhana, head of Berytech, says. \u201cInvestors don\u2019t fund companies that are only in the Lebanese market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the twenty-odd people taking part in the conversation, two said they were aiming at the global market, an ambitious starting point. Another is present in Congo and in France, due to diaspora. A handful of others were targeting the Arab market. \u201cThe goal is to sell in the Emirates. That\u2019s more than enough to start with,\u201d one says.<\/p>\n

But social networks clear up this complex panorama. Zeina Khoury, founder of\u00a0 Strat Associat, a student-prep program operating in Lebanon and elsewhere, explains: \u201cThey let me reach clients throughout the Arab world, at low cost.\u201d Hadjithomas adds that they\u2019re a vital part of \u201crelaying, translating, accelerating, and pushing us internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Je donne r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement conf\u00e9rences et s\u00e9minaires sur ce sujet dans certaines entreprises fran\u00e7aises de poids : Bouygues Telecom, CapGemini, L'Or\u00e9al, SFR, SNCF, entre autres ainsi que dans des forums moins prestigieux mais dans lesquels l\u2019assistance est passionn\u00e9e Convaincu que l\u2019am\u00e9lioration de nos villes et de la d\u00e9mocratie locale est un enjeu technologique et social majeur, je viens de me lancer dans une nouvelle s\u00e9rie d\u2019enqu\u00eates \u2013 un tour du monde en plusieurs \u00e9tapes nomm\u00e9 Participolis - sur les villes intelligentes ou qui s\u2019efforcent de l\u2019\u00eatre : 20 villes entre janvier 2014 et avril 2015. Je le con\u00e7ois comme une tension constante entre deux p\u00f4les d\u2019un m\u00eame probl\u00e8me : CitySmarting ou l\u2019effort pour rendre les villes plus intelligentes gr\u00e2ce, notamment aux technologies de l\u2019information et Participolis, le fait qu\u2019un meilleur futur pour nos villes ne peut \u00e9merger que de notre participation \u00e0 leur conception et \u00e0 leur gestion. Mes articles et chroniques ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s par plus de 100 m\u00e9dias sur quatre continents dont Le Monde, El Pa\u00eds (Madrid), Reforma (Mexico), The Next Web (Amsterdam) et Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo (Br\u00e9sil). J'enseigne aussi \u00e0 la Paris School of International Affairs de l'Institut d'\u00c9tudes Politiques de Paris et \u00e0 la WebSchoolFactory. J\u2019ai donn\u00e9 des cours \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Berkeley et \u00e0 l'Universit\u00e9 de Stanford. Je participe en temps qu\u2019expert au r\u00e9seau Netexplo. J\u2019ai publi\u00e9 plusieurs livres dont Comment le web change le monde, l'alchimie des multitudes (Pearson) avec Dominique Piotet (2008 et 2011). Quand je ne suis pas en vadrouille autour du monde, je vis entre Paris, Barcelone et Mexico. Mais toujours je suis int\u00e9ress\u00e9 par vos commentaires, critiques et suggestions. 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