HANS STOISSER
From a cartoonist to innovators to urban Africa
Gado, Safaricom, M-Pesa, Kibera and other events and meetings have been part of our Learning Journey to Silicon Savannah, Nairobi.
Category Emerging Africa
Learning Journey to Silicon Savannah – What we can learn from Africa
We will be looking for the 'missing link' in understanding 'Africa' - the innovators. We will meet innovators, entrepreneurs, managers, professors, thinkers, writers...
Europe takes Africa more seriously – Juncker’s State of the Union speech
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.
China-Africa Summit – Why China is leading the global world of ideas
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.
Asylum in Europe – Another reason to organize Learning Journeys to Africa
Learning Journeys to modern Africa make us recognize that solutions for the current asylum issues can only be found outside the asylum system
Turning a crisis into an opportunity
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…
Silicon Savannah – What we can learn from Africa
"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".
Relaunch development aid
Does Africa still need aid? The short answer: double humanitarian assistance, transfer the rest into a policy for networking, interlinking and steering migration flows....
Africa, the next factory of the world
The African industrialization through Chinese entrepreneurs, that is the theses put forward by Irene Yuan Sun. Her new book "The next factory of the world - How Chinese Investment is reshaping Africa" ....
Turning Point
A new blogpost in German.