HANS STOISSER
HANS STOISSER
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,…
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…
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…
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…
... 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.
Put yourself in the shoes of an African government. Who would you rather solve your problems with, China or Europe?
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.
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 the start-up movement has travelled in recent years. From Nairobi to Dakar is where my travels have taken me this year.
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.
After Russia's attack on Ukraine at a first glance, it makes little sense to think about our relations with Africa now. But the opposite is the case: one political and three economic reasons ….
222 million USD Venture Capital capital went to Senegal‘s startups in 2021. Will frankophone Africa catch up? We will have a look. March 29-31, 2022. Innovations Mission Dakar.