HANS STOISSER
Self-Flying Air Taxi took off in Kigali
On 3 September 2025, the first Chinese self-flying air taxi took off in Kigali. Rwanda has become a "proof-of-concept country". This could also be a chance for European companies.
HANS STOISSER
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Cape Verde: A Glimpse into Europe’s Future
Europe imagines itself as the center of global flows—but it is increasingly on the receiving end of a world shaped by mobility, migration, diaspora, and transnational networks. Cape Verde, in its small scale and agility, shows what deep global integration looks like.
Learning from Nairobi: The Rise of the Rest
In Austria, the neighbour’s husband is nearing retirement. He has become highly sensitive to noise and deeply anxious about the future. Young students worry about war and the warming of our planet. As winter approaches, more people seem increasingly unmotivated,…
The end of Mobile Money as we know it
This week brought a major announcement: Safaricom will allow its M-Pesa merchants to accept payments via Mastercard. Mobile money, Africa’s remarkable success story, began in 2007. At a time when mobile banking was still a distant future in Europe, Kenyan…
Migration – a Christmas story
Vienna, 2053. The head of communications at Mariahilf Hospital tells the story of her ancestors. In the mid-2020s, an increased influx of Kenyans to Austria began. The governments of both countries had signed an agreement on the migration of skilled…
Contribution to the whole instead of playing pointless games – What we can learn from Rwanda
Last week in our ‘Learning Journey to Rwanda’ we visited more than a dozen companies and institutions. We met the Rwanda Development Board, the phenomenal Israel Bimpe and Irembo, Zipline, Norrsken, MunyaxEco, Rwanda Mountain Tea, Pink Mango and others. We…
Modern organisations in a merging world
... in our interconnected global society, it is no longer about the West but about what the West has created: Putin and Co. have not taken seriously enough the potential and resilience of decentralised, self-organised complex systems that build on the freedom and autonomy of the individual.
China or Europe – who is Africa’s better partner?
Put yourself in the shoes of an African government. Who would you rather solve your problems with, China or Europe?
Gaining confidence in Nairobi
Nairobi, June 2022. What a difference. My partners did not say a word about crises. The new urban middle class is working hard on solutions.
Sim Tshabalala – What we can learn from African Management
As Sim Tshabalala pointed out in his keynote, African business people never had to be persuaded that their companies are guided by a higher purpose.
From Nairobi to Dakar
From Nairobi to Dakar the start-up movement has travelled in recent years. From Nairobi to Dakar is where my travels have taken me this year.
Learning Journey Silicon Savannah V
With Twiga Foods, the participants of the Learning Journey worked "live" and in "real time" on a case that could write economic history in Africa.