{"id":521,"date":"2014-11-21T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/?p=521"},"modified":"2014-11-21T13:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T13:25:36","slug":"how-could-technology-improve-your-neighbourhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/11\/21\/how-could-technology-improve-your-neighbourhood\/","title":{"rendered":"How could technology improve your neighbourhood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent is hosting an Innovation Day open to anyone with a good idea to improve their neighbourhood with technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Innovation Day, on Saturday 29 November, is a culmination of the \u2018Embrace Your Space\u2019 challenge, \u00a0run by the Kent Connects partnership and co-sponsored by the University of Kent. The challenge has already\u00a0caught the imagination of local people and University students, who have posted over 100 ideas onto the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.transformedbyyou.com\/\">Transformed by You website\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">During the Innovation Day at Woolf College from 9.30am to 4.30pm, everyone interested in the challenge is invited to come together and bring\u00a0their ideas\u00a0to life. \u00a0All ideas will be presented to a panel of judges and an overall winner will be announced at the event. The winner will be given the support they need to develop and launch\u00a0their idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Entry to the day is free and lunch and refreshments will be provided. People can sign up \u00a0now at\u00a0<span class=\"s3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/transformedbyu\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/transformedbyu\u00a0<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Professor Simon Thompson, from the\u00a0<a title=\"School of Computing website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.kent.ac.uk\/\">School of Computing<\/a>, explained: \u2018We have chosen to sponsor Embrace your Space in the School of Computing for three reasons. Firstly, we are pleased to make a contribution to the wider Canterbury and Kent community by supporting technology-based innovations that are set to enhance people\u2019s experience of public spaces. Secondly, our first year students in computer science are benefiting from the competition by working on projects alongside the formal competition. Finally, this is part of a wider collaboration with public sector IT organisations under which our students take sandwich placements and staff deliver \u2018masterclasses\u2019 to members of the Kent Connects partnership.\u2019<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent is hosting an Innovation Day open to anyone with a good idea to improve their neighbourhood with technology. The Innovation Day, on Saturday 29 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/2014\/11\/21\/how-could-technology-improve-your-neighbourhood\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[112401,112398,112399,87399,112397],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}