In an amazing step – ITU made its data open and their statistics available through the Google Public Data Explorer (PDE) at www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/explorer/index.html.

Data is from 1960 to 2011 for about 200 economies worldwide. Key indicators are:

• Fixed telephone
• Mobile cellular
• Fixed (wired) Internet
• Fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions and penetration
• Percentage of individuals using the Internet.

ITU statistics are widely recognized as the world’s most reliable and impartial global data on the state of the global ICT industry. They are used extensively by leading intergovernmental agencies, financial institutions and private sector analysts worldwide.

Here are some data i mashed up for lebanon. You can still go to the full link and play with the original set, change the graph type etc

a while back, I was looking for a list of Lebanese cities and villages to use while building an application.

The most useful thing i could find was on http://www.lebanon.cd/Lebanese-cities.htm – It is a nice list of 1100+ cities/villages arranged by district and area.

However the above exists in the form of HTML – not raw data… in other words, it is not easily re-usable.
After a few scripts, I turned the html into a public google fusion table findable in search and all.

Here is a link to the fusion table datasource https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1rxUVz_3qeOVPmN_kPCHumsQ_crEFyzCbrvPU28A (easy to use stuff – just click the link)

If you are not familiar with Fusion tables, here is a CSV for you to download.

Hope that turns out useful – more open data to come!