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One of the main tasks of Geography – changing the cultures of different societies as implementation and development inside the culture the samples of actions which require the growth of knowledge about territories. In modern time the diffusion of innovations is one of the most effective ways to change the cultures. The essential part of GIS activities is to design of culture-centered innovations taking into account specific features of cultures of different societies. For many developing countries in Africa, as well as in Asia and Latin America, in different areas we observe huge volumes of discrepancies between spatial data which are integrated from different sources in GIS for decision-making and regional economic activities. This phenomenon is called “bad spatial data”. Traditional culture makes you look at “bad spatial data” as barriers for development which negatively affects the investment attractiveness of the territory, entailing significant costs. Since 2006, the Institute of Geography, together with the municipal information center, has been creating geoinformation technologies that ensure efficient work with bad spatial data at the municipal case study area in Mytishchi near Moscow as well as them to many other municipalities. The solutions we have developed are based on GIS processing of spatial data as a resource, bringing wide range of effects, especially with a short-term payback. 0ne of the most suitable start point is the increasing and optimizing of incomes of local and regional budgets from land and immobility taxes. Usually during the first year the result relation “income/ expenses” is from 3 to 30. So such projects are “self-financing” work. On the base of this profit we develop other linked services for business and people. This approach realizes the conditions for regional impact investing as well as the transaction costs reducing from the start point situation. Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Department of Regional Economics of the Faculty of Economics of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia are starting the intention to create the joint basic department for propagation of the mentioned decisions for students from different countries of Africa.