The research aims to identify the relationship of indicators of sustainable smart cities with indicators of social well-being. It aims to study the most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the transformation of the city of Baghdad into a smart and sustainable city and measure the performance gap between the city's current reality and its ideal on the way to achieving sustainability to improve the community's quality of life and well-being. Social research started from a problem: Poor clarity in defining indicators of sustainable smart cities and studying their relationship with social well-being. The research assumes that there are measurable indicators of smart cities, which lead to enhanced city services that improve the material conditions of the community to achieve well-being. The research relies on the descriptive analytical approach by conducting a questionnaire for workers and specialists in the departments of urban planning, reconstruction, and municipalities. The research concluded that there is a gap of 1.5 out of a scale of 5 to evaluate the city's current reality with the ideal. The research concludes that the city of Baghdad takes shy steps in the field of achieving sustainability and intelligence. The research also concluded that the most important indicators are the indicator of adequate income and the presence of job opportunities, which are among the indicators that most affect the level of social welfare and have the greatest impact on the level of social welfare. The research recommends setting a time plan during which the implementation of the indicators affects the level of social well-being.
