{"id":199574,"date":"2017-09-19T11:09:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T09:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=199574"},"modified":"2017-09-20T15:29:50","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:29:50","slug":"attacq-offers-r100000-to-entrepreneurs-for-ideas-to-turn-waterfall-into-a-smart-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/199574\/attacq-offers-r100000-to-entrepreneurs-for-ideas-to-turn-waterfall-into-a-smart-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Attacq offers R100,000 to entrepreneurs for ideas to turn Waterfall into a smart city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attacq has launched it 2017 Smart Cities Innovation Pitching Platform with the aim of turning its flagship development, Waterfall City, into a smart city.<\/p>\n<p>The platform is targetted at\u00a0aspiring and emerging entrepreneurs to pitch their smart city business ideas for potential implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants stand a chance to win their share of R100,000 for direct business needs, or incubation support to the value of R150,000.<\/p>\n<p>To enter, applicants will need to develop their solution from concept stage and then prove its feasibility to become a viable business.<\/p>\n<p>Attacq specifically said it was looking for entrepreneurs with solutions that focus on opportunities in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Location technologies<\/li>\n<li>Transportation<\/li>\n<li>Security<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBlack screen\u201d technology<\/li>\n<li>Loyalty<\/li>\n<li>Technology to improve experiences in spaces where people live, work and play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Participants can submit their business ideas in the format of a 3-minute video pitch with no digital presentations, recorded at participating university campuses across the country and entered through a bespoke pitching platform.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is open to all aspiring innovators, from student and non-student communities, and applications will close on 29 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Applications can be submitted <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.launchlab.co.za\/attacq.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/broadband\/197226\/vox-partners-with-property-firm-atterbury-to-bring-fibre-to-new-developments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vox partners with property firm Atterbury to bring fibre to new developments<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developers Attacq are offering entrepreneurs a R100,000 prize if they can help turn their flagship development, Waterfall City, into a smart city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5553],"tags":[11493,26,11176],"class_list":["post-199574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-attacq","tag-headline","tag-waterfall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199592,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199574\/revisions\/199592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}