HANS STOISSER
Greetings from Dakar
In Dakar after more than 30 years, preparing for September. Immersing ourselves in the business innovation and Startup scene of Dakar.
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HANS STOISSER
The mobile-only Continent
A blogpost in German, here
CampQ 2021
The leadership conference CampQ goes Africa. What we can learn from digital Africa. I am particularly pleased to be able to organize a workshop on Business with Africa. On April 28, 2021. online.
Read MoreIs Covid sparing Africa?
Bill Gates and others warned of 10 million Covid deaths, ailing health systems, mass death. Such images of Covid-19 in Africa were all over our media in January and February. Now in December, in the same media, we wonder why this catastrophe failed to materialise.
Read MoreCode of Africa – new forms of collaboration
Whatever the term used - agile, people-centric, humanistic – Code of Africa's principles point the way to new forms of collaboration for the digital age.
Read MoreBright spots against a fragmenting world
Our struggle is not only about overcoming the pandemic. The overarching theme remains the shaping of the interlinked global digital society.
Read MoreCommunities – What we can learn from Africa
Lively communities distinguish African from Western societies. They enable people to navigate through a world of uncertainty. In times of COVID, can we in the West learn from this?
Read MoreManaging in a new VUCA world
African companies will also be hit very hard by the impacts of this pandemic. However, African companies are much more used to a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous business environment.
Read More“Hysteresis” – What will not go back to normal
How the pandemic might change our interlinked global society. The level of interconnectedness will not decrease compared to the pre-pandemic level but increase. However, it will be different.
Read MoreThe biggest lever to deal with climate change
Climate Change - Africa's leapfrogging could provide a model for the transition into the post-fossil age.
Read More2020 with NextAfrica
In 2019, people in African countries continued to connect digitally. And in 2019 the major geopolitical powers continued to enter Africa to increase their influence.
Read MoreAn Africa Policy instead of Development Aid
Development cooperation can only be a functional part of a holistic Africa policy. With one responsible unity which brings together foreign trade policy, innovation promotion, development policy, humanitarian and migration-policy.
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