{"id":37575,"date":"2016-02-04T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=37575"},"modified":"2016-02-04T15:23:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T19:23:08","slug":"public-input-sought-for-swift-the-big-high-speed-internet-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/02\/public-input-sought-for-swift-the-big-high-speed-internet-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Public input sought for SWIFT \u2014 the big high-speed Internet project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is collaborating with the Niagara Region and other partners on a major project to build an ultra high-speed fibre optic Internet network for everyone in Niagara and Western Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative called SWIFT \u2014 for South Western Integrated Fibre Technology \u2014 is being led by 16 regional and local municipalities in Ontario, with the aim of providing high-speed Internet access for 3.5 million Ontarians, mostly in rural areas.<\/p>\n<p>Besides providing improved Internet service for residents, SWIFT would be crucial in supporting small business growth in rural areas and bringing investment to Niagara\u2019s information infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>All residents are invited to take part in the feasibility study by completing a survey.\u00a0The public is also invited to attend a community engagement workshop on Friday Feb 5 from 9 am to noon in Room 108 of the Welland Civic Square, 60 Main St. E. in Welland.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the survey and the workshop, go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/government\/initiatives\/swift\/default.aspx\">http:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/government\/initiatives\/swift\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University is collaborating with the Niagara Region and other partners on a major project to build an ultra high-speed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37576,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37575\/revisions\/37576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}