{"id":44179,"date":"2017-03-24T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=44179"},"modified":"2017-03-25T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T15:14:22","slug":"brock-to-host-smart-cities-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/03\/brock-to-host-smart-cities-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to host Smart Cities discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smart phones. Smart watches. Smart cities.<\/p>\n<p>What makes a city smart? How do we make Niagara a smarter community?<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Centre Member of Parliament, Vance Badawey, and Brock\u2019s Department of Geography and Tourism Studies, will host a round table discussion at Brock University Wednesday, March 29 to talk about what can be done to help Niagara municipalities become smart cities.<\/p>\n<p>The event, at Pond Inlet from 2 to 4 p.m., is open to students, faculty, staff and the Niagara community to discuss things such as public\/private partnerships, creating liveable communities, improving technology infrastructure, creating trade corridors and improving regional transit.<\/p>\n<p>To RVSP, please contact <a href=\"mailto:vance.badawey.c2@parl.gc.ca\" target=\"_blank\">vance.badawey.c2@parl.gc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart phones. Smart watches. Smart cities. What makes a city smart? How do we make Niagara a smarter community?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4,38],"tags":[5014,295,617,4255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44179"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}