Craig Schwabe and Michael O’Donovan

Craig Schwabe is a geospatial specialist and focuses on the development of geospatial information for South Africa and Africa. He has assisted in the defining the fundamental geospatial datasets development as well as developing key geospatial datasets for South Africa and Africa. As part of the AfricaScope team he has developed demographic and income data for South Africa and countries across Africa. He has been an adviser to multilateral and multinational organisations in the development and use of geospatial data in Africa. Schwabe has published several reports, books, chapters and scientific papers as well as presented papers at a number of national and international conferences. He assisted the Department of Public Service and Administration in publishing guidelines for improving geographic access to government service points. Michael O’ Donovan is a data scientist and demographer and specialises in the analysis and management of large socio-economic and political databases. He is currently a director of a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the improvement of quantitative analysis in the social sciences. He is a specialist in the use of statistical and data-mining techniques. His focus areas include crime, poverty and inequality, migration, socio-economic development and political behaviour. O’Donavan has undertaken detailed analysis of Covid-19 data in South Africa.