13 May 2021 - By Peter Magni with thanks to Miriam Maina
This is the third blog on the series on data, spatial planning, and public and private sector investment in the City of Johannesburg.
Managing a large city such as Johannesburg requires a significant volume of data and subsequent analysis of this data, for the coordination and management of land use, and the provision and operation of public infrastructure. Some data is needed to manage specific tasks, such as running a wastewater treatment plant. Some are necessary for long-term city planning; for example, population change and gross value added. The city needs urban data at varying degrees of detail and it needs to be collected longitudinally, to monitor and analyze trends over time. To obtain, manage, and extract value from this data, the City deploys multiple strategies.