The Arab World Has Tech Talent To Sustain It Beyond The Clones

This is a guest post by Mehrunisa Qayyum, a consultant on the Middle East / North Africa region, founder of PitaPolicy and Huffington Post Blogger. "Here?s a mobile app that rates the restaurant/bar/club based on the how many attractive women are there," explained an Arab Net Summit attendee to me in a Hamraa neighborhood hotspot of Beirut. I had to contain myself. Here I was in Lebanon, attending the Arab Net conference, and trying to challenge another blogger?s belief that innovation in Arab countries is limited to localizing the application of existing startups. Clones, in other words. And the conversation had shifted from "who?s hot" rather than ?what?s hot".

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