{"id":51061,"date":"2018-05-17T09:18:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T13:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=51061"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:04","slug":"haggart-and-tusikov-quayside-toronto-project-proves-that-smart-city-talks-must-be-transparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/05\/haggart-and-tusikov-quayside-toronto-project-proves-that-smart-city-talks-must-be-transparent\/","title":{"rendered":"HAGGART AND TUSIKOV: Quayside Toronto project proves that smart city talks must be transparent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, co-wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/quayside-toronto-project-proves-that-smart-city-talks-must-be-transparent-96323?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2016%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2016%202018+CID_85649c5642f6df3b9adfbc8f554aac08&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Quayside%20Toronto%20project%20proves%20that%20smart%20city%20talks%20must%20be%20transparent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece\u00a0recently published in The Conversation<\/a> about the importance of transparency during smart city talks. The piece was co-written by Natasha Tusikov, Assistant Professor of Criminology at York University.<\/p>\n<p>Haggart and Tusikov write:<\/p>\n<p><em>On May 3, six months into what was initially billed as a year-long public consultation process, Sidewalk Toronto held only its second public meeting on its smart city Quayside development plans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The proposed Quayside community was supposed to be a global showcase for what a smart city, \u201cbuilt from the internet up,\u201d would look like.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But by all accounts, the latest meeting did\u00a0little to clarify crucial issues, such as how Sidewalk Labs, the Google sister company partnering with the Waterfront Toronto tri-governmental agency on this project,\u00a0would make its money. Most crucially for a project that is all about data collection and implies ubiquitous surveillance, their data governance plans remain unclear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>More to the point, negotiations between Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto remain shrouded in secrecy, and in the absence of a clearly structured true consultation, it\u2019s becoming increasingly difficult to believe Sidewalk Toronto\u2019s Dan Doctoroff and Will Fleissig\u2019s\u00a0commitment to work with\u00a0\u201cthe city and the local community\u201d in \u201cco-creating\u201d Quayside.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rather, the process resembles a public relations campaign, a suspicion not allayed by Sidewalk Toronto\u2019s\u00a0public engagement plan\u2019s inclusion of consultative measures such as a \u201cYMCA-Sidewalk Toronto Summer Kids Camp\u201d for nine-to-12-year-olds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/quayside-toronto-project-proves-that-smart-city-talks-must-be-transparent-96323?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2016%202018&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20May%2016%202018+CID_85649c5642f6df3b9adfbc8f554aac08&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Quayside%20Toronto%20project%20proves%20that%20smart%20city%20talks%20must%20be%20transparent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, co-wrote a piece\u00a0recently published in The Conversation about the importance of transparency during smart city talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[3445,4104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51061"}],"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=51061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51062,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51061\/revisions\/51062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}