2026· International Journal of Disability and Social Justice· Vol 6· 0 citations· 43 references
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In the rapidly evolving world of technology, it is crucial to keep track of the progress of digital transformation and its impact on marginalized communities. This study examines Icelandic governmental digital policies through historical discourse analysis, exploring the ways in which digital transformation initiatives are conceptualized within a neoliberal rationality that emphasizes efficiency, competitiveness, and individuality and how this aligns with the rights and needs of disabled people. The analysis reveals that digital policies lack inclusivity and discussion on equitable access. The policies operate within the historical conjuncture of ableism, neoliberal rationality, and human rights, where human rights are subordinate. This highlights significant challenges in incorporating a commitment to human rights within digital transformation, which frequently falls short of addressing the rights and needs of disabled people.
The digitalisation of public administration is often framed as a process aimed at increasing efficiency, transparency, and accessibility of public services. However, this transformation also reshapes the relationship between citizens and the state, raising questions about the humanistic dimension of administrative procedures. This article addresses the problem of the dehumanisation of procedures in the context of digital governance and analyses the tension between system rationality and individual experience, with particular attention to how the development of digital systems transforms citizens’ experiences and their relationships with public administration. Adopting a humanistic perspective, the article argues that the growing dominance of algorithmic logic and standardised interfaces reduces citizens to data points, weakening the relational and interpretative character of administrative practices. The analysis is theoretical and interpretative, drawing on literature in public administration, management, and technology studies to identify areas where digital systems fail to capture the complexity of human experience, thereby generating new forms of exclusion and depersonalisation. The article concludes by emphasising the need to define the limits of digitalisation critically and to develop a model of public administration that is genuinely human-centred, in which technological solutions remain subordinate to human judgment and interpretative capacity.
Agnieszka Szczudlińska-Kanoś· Art of Humanistic Management...· 0 citations
The modernization of public management represents a central challenge for contemporary states, particularly in contexts where governance systems remain heavily centralized. In Algeria, the reform agenda has increasingly invoked the principles of digitalization, decentralization, and participatory democracy as pathways toward transparency, legitimacy, and responsiveness. Drawing on academic literature, policy documents, and comparative insights, this study employs a qualitative, analytical, and critical methodology to assess the trajectory of these reforms. The findings reveal a paradoxical dynamic: while digitalization has improved service accessibility and visibility since the acceleration of reforms in 2020, its impact remains uneven due to structural inertia, the digital divide, and weak regulatory frameworks. Similarly, decentralization, although constitutionally recognized and supported by initiatives such as the CapDeL project, continues to be constrained by strong central oversight, limiting local autonomy. Participatory democracy, though formally endorsed, remains largely symbolic, with citizen involvement in decision-making processes still marginal. Taken together, the analysis underscores that Algeria’s governance reforms embody a case of symbolic convergence without substantive transformation. Rather than producing an integrated model of New Public Governance, reforms have yielded fragmented and partial outcomes, highlighting the need for stronger institutional mechanisms and genuine political commitment. These findings contribute to broader debates on governance transitions in developing contexts, particularly regarding the adaptation of reform models originally designed in and for developed countries.
Sarah Bensaoula, Mohammed Soufyane Bezzar· Romanian Economic Journal· 0 citations
Permendiktisaintek No. 39 of 2025 establishes higher education quality assurance standards emphasizing the use of “reliable” technology. While intended to improve educational quality, the policy may inadvertently widen digital and economic disparities among higher education institutions. This study examines how the policy reproduces inequalities in economic and cultural capital, symbolic violence, and cultural inferiority. Employing a qualitative critical policy analysis and regulatory discourse analysis, policy documents were analyzed using ATLAS.ti to examine the relationships among capital, quality standards, and mechanisms of domination. The findings reveal that the policy, despite its quality improvement agenda, has the potential to reinforce existing social and economic inequalities. The requirement for “reliable” technology converts economic capital into institutional advantages that shape accreditation outcomes. Moreover, the discourse of equality embedded in the policy obscures disparities in digital access and institutional capacity, while global quality standards are institutionalized as a form of doxa that marginalizes local values and knowledge. The study concludes that the policy is not value-neutral but reinforces social stratification within Indonesian higher education. It calls for more contextual, inclusive, and socially responsive quality assurance policies to promote equitable access and educational justice.
It is argued that because society is being radically reconfigured, humanity must intentionally design this transfiguration to align infrastructure and governance with human values, rather than blindly inheriting the permanent consequences of unplanned disruption.
Johannes Ludwig Vrana, Ripi Singh· Digital Society· 0 citations
Classical foundations that underpin modern legal systems bounded territoriality, recognizable actors and a relatively stable technological base have been under threat from the swift spread of digital technologies, namely the internet, mobile devices, platform intermediaries and, most recently, artificial intelligence. This paper explores the connection between law and digital technology in the modern world on both sides; not only as the regulating institution in the context of technological change but also as an institution itself reshaped by technology. The paper outlines six main legal issues in the digital age data protection, cybercrime, artificial intelligence governance, platform regulation and intermediary liability, jurisdiction and digital sovereignty, and IP and four trends of socio-legal processes these map onto: digital inclusion, reorganization of work, public discourse, and reconstitution of identity, community online. The paper will utilize recent regional figures on the internet's penetration, overall costs of cybercrime and a comparison of the timelines of the different regulations in the region to suggest that economies in this region end up in a unique position: Asia-Pacific has the largest online population in the world, and their regulation in the digital world is far from even. The paper ends with policy recommendations to move towards a more responsive, proportional and regionally coordinated legal structure for digital governance.
Gayatri Kapur, Sulbha Goyal, Ishita Khetarpal et al.· International Journal of Eco...· 0 citations
This article analyzes the relationship between neoliberalism, digital technologies, and the production of subjectivity within the context of contemporary capitalism. Its aim is to demonstrate that neoliberalism does not merely constitute an economic model, but rather a rationality of government that organizes conduct and produces specific forms of subjectivation. Within this framework, it is argued that digital technologies, far from being neutral instruments, constitute the infrastructure that renders this rationality operative by enabling the quantification, evaluation, and modulation of conduct. Furthermore, the role of Big Data and Generative Artificial Intelligence is analyzed as dispositifs that intensify these processes through prediction, content generation, and the organization of informational environments. Finally, it is argued that these dynamics reconfigure the experience of the subject by displacing control toward forms of continuous self-evaluation, inscribed within a temporality shaped by debt and the anticipation of performance.
Diego Alfonso Landinez Guio, Dayron Osmar Correa Zea· Revista Disertaciones· 0 citations