HANS STOISSER
Category Global Society
Europe’s Handling of African Migration
Paper from Hans Stoisser, published in Europäische Briefe of the European Society Coudenhove-Kalergi on December 15th, 2016 Europe’s Handling of African Migration If we develop a clear picture of the situation, a strategy will almost become self evident From a European perspective, Africa is a continent…
Disruptive Innovations start on the lower end of the market
Digital Transformation – Why learning from Africa
Huge demand meets new field of networks and digital technology
Demand means needs plus purchasing power. In the next couple of years the new emerging middle class in African countries stands for a huge demand. Which encounters a newly networked field of people and organizations. Find a new blog post…
First Innovation, then Regulation
First Innovation, then Regulation – What we can learn from Africa “You can not innovate under regulation. You have to take risks”, says Bitange Ndemo, former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication in Kenya. He knows. During his time in government, from 2005…
Software is eating the world – about African innovation
Software is eating the world – about African innovation “Why software is eating the world” has been the title of a famous essay by Marc Andreessen in the Wall Street Journal in 2011. Being in Nairobi, I have been heavily reminded…
Agile Europeans in Africa
Why we need agile Europeans in Africa “Many Europeans still treat Africans like children”, said James Shikwati, a Kenyan born intellectual, at a panel discussion in Hamburg, showing how European behavior is perceived in Africa. In the same discussion I argued that Africa and Europe…
Africa and Europe at a crossroad?
Africa and Europe at a crossroad? – “Yes, they are”, I argued in a panel discussion in Hamburg on December 2, 2015. “And Europe should better watch out not to drift apart. In its own interests.” Five forces are describing…
Dambisa Moyo at the Druckerforum in Vienna
Dambisa Moyo, bestselling author and a big voice when it comes to abandon development aid for Africa, comes to the Global Peter Drucker Forum to Vienna on November 5 and 6, 2015. In her blogpost at the Drucker Blog, Dambisa rises concern that digitalization…