Africa Management Expert, Speaker, Author
End of January we were 18 Mzungus visiting Nairobi. It was the third so called “Learning Journey to Silicon Savannah” making us explore “Digital Africa”, “Urban Africa” and possibilities for “Co-Creation”. We went for an experiment and checked in at the Madaraka railway, Kenya’s first big infrastructure investment built by China.
I am looking forward to my keynote in Dornbirn next week (in English):
Only when we realize the realities in Africa, Europe will be able to deal with migration and the interconnected global society.
Gado, Safaricom, M-Pesa, Kibera and other events and meetings have been part of our Learning Journey to Silicon Savannah, Nairobi.
We will be looking for the ‘missing link’ in understanding ‘Africa’ – the innovators. We will meet innovators, entrepreneurs, managers, professors, thinkers, writers…
Junker’s State of the Union speech: Africa is taken more seriously. Europe has learned what it means to be part of the interconnected global society. And has again real interests in Africa.
The recent China-Africa summit has been another proof of how China is leading the global world of ideas. The Chinese economic success story, an authoritarian model and a “5-no policy” has made China the role model for many African countries.
Learning Journeys to modern Africa make us recognize that solutions for the current asylum issues can only be found outside the asylum system
Cape Town is running out of water. DAY ZERO – the day when water reserves are at zero – is approaching. For three consecutive years rainfalls were less than normal. But it is not the missing rainfall, reasons for the water shortage in the urban agglomeration of 3,8 million people go deeper, says the Economist. It is a …
“Mobile money” has become a basic technology in “Silicon Savannah” in Nairobi. The digital transformation happens differently from other places. In education, in health or in the energy sector. We should better learn from “Digital Africa”.