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African Renaissance: Towards the development of a spatial information system for socio-economic development in Africa - Addendum 1

Craig Schwabe
Director: GIS Centre
Human Sciences Research Council

5th AfricaGIS Conference
Nairobi, Kenya
5-9 November 2001

  Contents
  Abstract
1. Introduction
2. The importance of spatial information systems
3.
The building blocks of the African Renaissance:
  3.1   A socio-economic, political and environmental perspective of Africa
  3.2   A theoretical framework for developing a spatial information system
  3.3   A policy framework for the African Renaissance
  3.4   International best practice
4.
Spatial information model
  4.1   The core data sets
  4.2   Secondary data sets
5. Using supply and demand to identify spatial information needs
6. Conclusion
  References
  Addendum 1

Addendum 1

List of Information Requirements
for the New Partnership for Africa's Development
  • Population with access to services and infrastructure (e.g. water, sanitation, electricity, housing, policing, health, education, telephones, roads, postal)
  • Reliability and quality of services and infrastructure
  • Population with access to credit
  • Number of jobs created
  • Economic growth rate
  • Extent of funding (i.e. government, ODA, private) allocated and spent on development
  • Extent of international debt
  • Democratic governments
  • Distribution of natural resources
  • Distribution of historical and archeological sites
  • Dollar value of exports and imports
  • Extent of trade deficit
  • Gross domestic product (GDP) by sector
  • Corruption index ranking of countries
  • Access to information and communication technologies (ICT – internet connections)
  • Distribution of transportation infrastructure (i.e. air, rail, road, border points)
  • Quality of life index
  • Political stability rating
  • Extent of environmental degradation and desertification
  • Extent of wetland conservation
  • Percentage land lost to alien vegetation
  • Percentage of land conserved as natural ecosystems or nature reserves or as transfrontier areas
  • Quality of water rating
  • Macroeconomic stability rating
  • Fiscal and monetary policy rating
  • Percentage population attending education and skills development institutions
  • Gender equality
  • Percentage land under agriculture and irrigation
  • Competitive index ranking of countries
  • Percentage population with access to medical practitioners
  • Number of tertiary educated people
  • Dollar value of national savings
  • Dollar value of revenue per capita
  • Percentage land under tenure systems
  • Distribution of tourism services and infrastructure
  • Percentage population with disease (e.g. malaria, TB, HIV/Aids)
  • Percentage adult illiteracy
  • Percentage school going population enrolment in primary and secondary education
  • Percentage adult and infant mortality
  • Population fertility rate
  • Percentage educated by level
  • Geodemographics and lifestyle segmentation
  • Extent of international and national migration

 

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