About

Communica was founded in 2005 to help government and suppliers engage and inform corporate decision makers and the wider community about spatial (location/geographic) policy and technology.

Principal Jose Diacono has over thirty years experience in IT, marketing, training, support, event and project management and sales, specialising in spatial data and GIS. She has worked with GE, Intergraph, Smallworld, the Geospatial Information & Technology Association (GITA) and real time systems developer  SPL International  in a variety of technical, marketing and management roles in Europe and Australia.

Jose is a passionate advocate of spatial data sharing and websites that are a pleasure to visit. She writes regularly for Position Magazine, most recently on Mashups, Web 2.0 and the publishing of government data.

Communica’s  clients also include engineering, medical and sporting organisations.

Jose  has an Honours Degree in Modern Languages from the University of Bradford, a Diploma in Management Studies and is fluent in Dutch, French and German.

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