HANS STOISSER
Bright 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.
HANS STOISSER
Category Emerging Africa
Communities – 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?
Managing 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.
The biggest lever to deal with climate change
Climate Change - Africa's leapfrogging could provide a model for the transition into the post-fossil age.
2020 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.
An 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.
Rising Africa with Europe in a Leading Part
Europe has laid the foundations for an interconnected global society. So also for the upswing in Africa. With our false image of Africa we cannot see that at all. The two narratives - hopeless Africa, the break-up of Europe - reinforce each other.
The Entrepreneurial Society in Africa leads the way to Digital Transformation
In Africa, the entrepreneurial mindset is the norm, the "default" position of African societies. That makes a big difference for the digital transformation.
In search of new markets? – Rwanda, the “proof-of-concept-country”
The small East African country Rwanda has discovered its competitive advantage in our interlinked global society. It offers a greenfield for proof-of-concept of digital innovations. And expects a contribution to its development.
Preparing in Kigali
Rwanda is different. Driving from the airport to the center of the capital Kigali, you feel a bit like in the Tuscany in Italy. Green alleys and red-roofed houses in „the land of a thousand hills“. As an European you might forget that you are only some 200 km away from the equator, in the middle of the African continent.