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The foundation of sustainable development

Craig Schwabe is the Director of the GIS Centre in the Human Sciences Research Council. He has a passion for the development of spatial information and its effective application in decision-making. The GIS Centre provides specialist and up-to-date information, knowledge and skills especially in the socio-economic and development fields of GIS. Recent client projects include the development of a pension pay point database for the Department of Social Development, a Minimum Data Set on ageing for the Department of Health and a cultural GIS and placename database for the Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST). Craig is currently project leader of a DACST-funded regional science and technology project focusing on implementing an integrated development GIS for SADC countries with collaborators from all 14 SADC countries.