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.
HANS STOISSER
Category Global Society
Is 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.
Code 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.
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.
“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.
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.
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.