HANS STOISSER
HANS STOISSER
In Austria, the neighbour’s husband is nearing retirement. He has become highly sensitive to noise and deeply anxious about the future. Young students worry about war and the warming of our planet. As winter approaches, more people seem increasingly unmotivated,…
This week brought a major announcement: Safaricom will allow its M-Pesa merchants to accept payments via Mastercard. Mobile money, Africa’s remarkable success story, began in 2007. At a time when mobile banking was still a distant future in Europe, Kenyan…
Vienna, 2053. The head of communications at Mariahilf Hospital tells the story of her ancestors. In the mid-2020s, an increased influx of Kenyans to Austria began. The governments of both countries had signed an agreement on the migration of skilled…
Put yourself in the shoes of an African government. Who would you rather solve your problems with, China or Europe?
Nairobi, June 2022. What a difference. My partners did not say a word about crises. The new urban middle class is working hard on solutions.
We will be looking for the 'missing link' in understanding 'Africa' - the innovators. We will meet innovators, entrepreneurs, managers, professors, thinkers, writers...
The African innovation culture has always been creative and good at doing. But lacked knowledge and technologies. Globalization has changed that fundamentally. Today, the ubiquity of digital technologies and the access to knowledge provide the missing link.
Being here in Nairobi I have found an interesting quote. Eric Hersman, one of the founding figures of the Kenyan Internet business scene, on foreign aid and NGOs: “In a well-functioning state, most NGOs would not exist. There is only a…
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…