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Smart Cities Initiatives to Examine and Explore Urban Social Challenges

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Smart cities initiatives are closely tied up with social aspects of urban and rural communities. The potential of the smart city concept in addressing social challenges has not been clearly explored in previous studies and projects. Poverty is one of the most critical issues in many small- and medium-sized Canadian cities. This chapter introduces a practical smart solution to help address the generational poverty challenge in the City of Saint John, Canada. The outcome suggests that decision makers and key stakeholders can employ real-time data to better understand and serve the needs and demands of vulnerable individuals and marginalized population in poor communities by using a foodbank platform. Future studies can focus on developing a social network for key stakeholders, target groups, and decision makers in order to be in a consistent and real-time connection with each other.

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    The success of the programs has been measured based on target groups’ responses to this question: Do you find these programs helpful?

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    There is not any report regarding the Homelessness Partnering Strategy.

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  1. Urban and Community Studies Institute, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada

    Milad Pirayegar Emrouzeh

  2. Faculty of Business, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada

    Gregory Fleet & Robert Moir

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Emrouzeh, M.P., Fleet, G., Moir, R. (2020). Smart Cities Initiatives to Examine and Explore Urban Social Challenges. In: Hassanien, A., Bhatnagar, R., Khalifa, N., Taha, M. (eds) Toward Social Internet of Things (SIoT): Enabling Technologies, Architectures and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 846. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24513-9_5

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