{"id":1996,"date":"2014-06-17T11:46:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:46:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:46:46","slug":"can-information-and-communications-technology-ict-help-produce-a-greener-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/can-information-and-communications-technology-ict-help-produce-a-greener-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Can information and communications technology (ICT) help produce a greener Canada?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Imagine an app that helps monitor your water usage, or a \u201csmart building\u201d that tints its windows in response to sunlight in order to save on air conditioning costs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Such technologies exist, but putting them to work will require integration on a number of fronts: improving broadband access in all areas of the country; standardizing the protocols that devices use to communicate with each other and encouraging businesses to be more open with their data. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A Council of Canadian Academies Panel, led by David Miller, President &amp; CEO WWF-Canada and former mayor of Toronto, examines just what it will take to leverage Canada\u2019s strengths in ICT to build a more sustainable future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine an app that helps monitor your water usage, or a \u201csmart building\u201d that tints its windows in response to sunlight in order to save on air conditioning costs. Such technologies exist, but putting them to work will require integration on a number of fronts: improving broadband access in all areas of the country; standardizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31,171,215,50,1767,1284],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-climate-change","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-ontario","tag-sustainable-development","tag-water"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-wc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}