Evaluate the efficiency of the Iraqi city to overcome the challenges of sustainable smart cities

Abstract

Abstract The Iraqi city suffers from stagnation and being unable to respond to the increasing demand for services due to the high population density that has created a huge data system. Therefore, the traditional systems are unable to respond to the nature of demands and provide solutions according to standards that meet the ambition of the planning. The traditional choice of presenting plans and implementing them with the world’s knowledge progress has become a futile choice that may not work if it continues at this classic steps. This importance of Smart City globally and its adoption as a strategy is to alleviate the problems caused by population growth and rapid urbanization, yet, we notice a very small number of researches that discuss this phenomenon in Arab countries generally, in Iraq specifically, and in order to fill this gap and in responding to the use of this concept, the frame of this research was set to identify the most important obstacles in implementing this concept on the Iraqi city in terms of Smart infrastructure elements which is a base of the concept of smart city integration. This research is part of the solutions to the problems of cities through smart means, which can be divided in this aspect into two main stages: the first is the studies that concern the literature that aim to establish such cities, second is the practical aspect of these kinds of literature. Therefore, the research aimed at studying the possibility of applying the literature of the smart city to the Iraqi city in order to evaluate the reality which resulted in the fact that applying this concept requires financial and knowledge abilities which suites the gap deduced by the research through adopted globally tools in this field.