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Our Profile

We are a research and consultancy company with expertise in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and database design as well as in data analysis, training, internet mapping and programming. We have worked successfully with education departments and ministries, the private sector, NGOs, local government, health departments, and international AID agencies.

We promote an integrated approach to projects, focussing on both people and technology. We are deeply committed to the use of Information Technology as a problem solving tool. We work hard with companies to achieve innovative solutions using GIS and IT, ensuring that there is capacity development and sustainability. We also specialize in decision support and in demystifying GIS and IT jargon for the benefit of companies and their employees.

Daniel Wilson

Daniel Wilson Daniel is a founder member of EduAction and has 15 years experience in education, socio-economic analysis, GIS and database development. He has an Honours Degree in Human Geography and a Masters Degree in GIS from the University of Leeds, UK. He specializes in the use of information for policy support and decision-making, and has developed numerous decision-support tools and training courses for clients.

He has worked in South Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi, Botswana, Swaziland, Zambia and Mozambique.

Frank Sokolic

Frank Sokolic Frank is a physical geographer with a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science & Information Systems from Unisa and an M.Sc. degree in Environmental Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has considerable experience in developing and presenting GIS and GPS courses, as well in computer programming, database development and web page design.

He also has a strong grounding in meteorology having completed a nine-year stint with the South African Weather Service, a stint which also included year-long tours to the Marion Island and SANAE research stations. Subsequent to this he joined the former University of Natal where he worked on the Wind Energy and Ozone research projects for five years. From 1998 onwards he took charge of the GIS facilities in the Department of Geographical and Environmental Sciences (now called the School of Environmental Sciences), during which time he developed training material and conducted courses in GIS, GPS and remote sensing at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Frank has a keen interest in promoting the use of free and open source (FOSS) GIS in South Africa. He provides support and training for Quantum GIS, gvSIG, MapWindow, MapServer and OpenLayers.

Michela De Dominicis

Michela De Dominicis Michela completed her B.Sc. Honours in Environmental Science in 2008 at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus. Her research project, supervised by Dr Serban Proches, was entitled Spatial Relationships between Alien Plants and their Indigenous relatives. A conference presentation on this research was well received at an international conference on the Ecology and Management of Alien Plant Invasions in August 2009, Stellenbosch.

Michela has assisted in demonstrating and tutoring for GIS and other Geography modules in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Kwazulu-Natal.