Author Archives: Craig Schwabe - GIS Specialist

The magic of Malawi – leading the way in Africa with census geospatial information

This small landlocked country in south-east Africa is one of the true pearls of the...

Geospatial World – Africa’s geospatial industry must move forward through economic clusters

Geospatial Knowledge Infrastructure (GKI) is about people using geospatial information more in their daily lives....

Getting Geoinformation and Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) to Work for Africa

Africa needs geospatial information to identify the neediest areas on the continent and to effectively...

Township economies must be a key focus for development – and accurate data is crucial

An economic strategy for reviving South African townships after the pandemic must address the massive...

SA’s Crime – One of the Worst in the World

South Africa is ranked as one of the top crime countries of the world and...

Smaller Fast Food Outlets Part of SA’s Future

An analysis of the South African fast food industry in 2019 showed that there was...

SA as an Innovation State – Missing In Action?

I was fortunate to watch Mariana Mazzucato being interviewed and talking about her book on...

Other Foundation partners AfricaScope on Survey of People’s Perceptions to LGBTI Issues – Botswana & Eswatini

In 2018, AfricaScope South Africa assisted the Other Foundation in conducting a perception survey on...

A lack of access to information is constraining a unified fight against Covid-19

The fight against Covid-19 must be evidence-based through the use of information. This does not...

Crime Atlas goes digital – Citizens have a right to know

In 2016 AfricaScope released the most comprehensive Crime Atlas of the 2015/2016 crime statistics. Information...