{"id":53870,"date":"2018-10-16T10:19:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T14:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=53870"},"modified":"2018-10-16T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:03:25","slug":"brock-talk-to-focus-on-data-smart-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/10\/brock-talk-to-focus-on-data-smart-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock talk to focus on data, smart cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smart cities are built on data. But who owns that data and what are the rules governing its collection, use and ownership?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Natasha Tusikov, Assistant Professor of Criminology at York University and author of <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet<\/span><\/em><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">will address these and other questions surrounding data governance during a talk at Brock on Friday, Oct. 19.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53874\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53874\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53874\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Natasha-Tusikov.jpg\" alt=\"Natasha Tusikov\" width=\"202\" height=\"218\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha Tusikov will speak at Brock on Friday, Oct. 19.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Held from noon to 1 p.m. in Welch Hall 202, her presentation will look at how data is governed in smart cities and with what implications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For instance, when companies build and operate smart-city systems like traffic control or energy management, how does the collection and use of data within privately run (often proprietary) systems affect public policy and government regulatory activities? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tusikov\u2019s talk titled \u201cGoverning Data in Smart Cities\u201d will focus on her research project on data governance in smart cities with a focus on Sidewalk Labs\u2019 proposed smart city in Toronto\u2019s Quayside neighbourhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The talk is part of Brock\u2019s Department of Political Science Speaker Series, which runs monthly throughout the academic year, with the exception of December and April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on this and other talks in the series, email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:political.science@brocku.ca\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">political.science@brocku.ca<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart cities are built on data. But who owns that data and what are the rules governing its collection, use and ownership?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,38],"tags":[7076,4104,4319,7078,7077,790],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53870"}],"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=53870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53877,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53870\/revisions\/53877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}