Data, data infrastructure, data visualisation, indicators & benchmarks projects
Current Projects
GCRO is working with Brian Mubiwa from University of Johannesburg on an urban growth mapping project. Mubiwa is currently working on his doctoral thesis titled: Impact of Transport Corridors on Urban Development and Transport Energy in the Gauteng Global City Region.
An interactive GIS website will be developed to provide a Web 2.0 G-government solution for GCR policy makers and stakeholders. Various base datasets such as census information and Quality of Life survey results and indices, will be mapped and visualised to provide online analysis tools for the GCR.
GCRO is working with of the City of Johannesburg, which is in partnership with a Washington firm, Social Compact, to conduct a 'DrillDown' analysis of the Johannesburg inner city. Social Compact’s DrillDown method, pioneered in US cities, uses innovative techniques to determine population and spending power in order to unlock investment interest in under-developed urban areas.
The aim of this project is to develop key indicators with which to measure the performance, development progress and competitiveness of the Gauteng City-Region and benchmark it against city-regions elsewhere in the world, while exploring options for indicators that allow worthwhile international benchmarking and tell our own story.
GCRO commissioned a 6 000 sample survey (fieldwork provided by DRA which won a highly competitive tender) to measure the quality of life, socio-economic circumstances, attitudes to service delivery, psycho-social attitudes, value-base and other characteristics of the Gauteng City-Region.
The State of the Gauteng City-Region will be a multi-media output based on information collected from the Quality of Life Survey, OECD process, benchmark indicators development, and GIS data acquisition.
