{"id":49157,"date":"2018-01-31T14:16:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T19:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49157"},"modified":"2018-01-31T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T22:36:39","slug":"brock-to-host-smart-cities-discussion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/01\/brock-to-host-smart-cities-discussion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to host \u2018smart cities\u2019 discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Brock community is being asked to bring innovative ideas to the table that could see Niagara transformed into a smarter region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A roundtable discussion will be held on campus Friday, Feb. 2 to get a dialogue going about ways to help local municipalities become smart cities \u2014 communities that use data and technology to create efficiencies and economic development, improve sustainability and enhance quality of life for residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Held from 2 to 4 p.m. at Pond Inlet, the public event is organized by Niagara Centre Member of Parliament, Vance Badawey, and Brock\u2019s Department of Geography and Tourism Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The talk will focus on the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infrastructure.gc.ca\/plan\/cities-villes-eng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smart Cities Challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> issued by Infrastructure Canada, which calls on communities across the country to bring forward their best ideas for improving the lives of residents through innovation, data and connected technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All feedback collected during the discussion will be submitted to the Niagara Region for its<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/smartcitiesniagara.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smart Cities Niagara<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> survey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While not required, registration for the event is recommended and can be done <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1ueDUrKwNG7aY_5-rwbAkSK_ZbjhYl4HSkDKqX6U24hc\/viewform?edit_requested=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brock community is being asked to bring innovative ideas to the table that could see Niagara transformed into a smarter region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,4,38],"tags":[5014,6247,6246,4255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49157"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49159,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49157\/revisions\/49159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}