Technology-driven proctoring: Validity, social justice and ethics in higher education by Elizabeth Archer

“…The student seems to be a secondary consideration compared to the technocratic digital proctoring arena. However, the introduction of online assessment, specifically with digital proctoring, impacts the assessment’s validity by introducing intervening variables into the process. …”
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Sustainable Smart City Technologies and Their Impact on Users’ Energy Consumption Behaviour by Hidayati Ramli, Zahirah Mokhtar Azizi, Niraj Thurairajah

“…While these technologies inform the city administration level in the SSC framework, the role of end users remains unclear, suggesting a technocratic approach. The study proposes the Sustainable Smart City Network to facilitate a grassroots approach, identifying five key domains: government policies, smart technology adoption, smart technology engagement, smart city infrastructure, and urban sustainability. …”
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A road trip on European highways. Considering the spatial qualities of E75 and E50 by Michel Heesen

“…It shows best practices and how these relate to the contemporary practice of highway design in the Netherlands.The paper argues that a technocratic and economically driven approach to highway design is a poor and vulnerable strategy. …”
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Public management of smart cities: European experience by S. A. Zakharova

“…The third group of publications deals with critical aspects of the development of smart governance in practice and the resulting consequences, in particular, the reassessment of the ability of the private sector to develop and implement intelligent technologies, the predominance of a technocratic approach to decision-making, the inability to ensure impartiality and objectivity, the lack of the ability to analyse urban data, cloud computing on digital platforms to stimulate production in a collaborative environment. …”
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The Forest Resources Information System to Support Sustainable Forest Management: Case Study Perum Perhutani by Ahsana Riska, Muhamad Buce Saleh, Hendrayanto Hendrayanto

“…Decision-making process highly adopts technocratic paradigm, centralized, and technically dominated by decision-maker preferences which give direct affect on information management at the site level. …”
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Designing Life after the Storm: Improvisations in Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction as Socio-Moral Practice by Pamela Gloria Cajilig

“…Furthermore, studies of disaster management attribute failure to top-down and technocratic approaches that often overlook the agency, capacities, and moral priorities of those directly affected. …”
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Disputing facts, disputing the economy: Media controversies at the decline of the Peruvian Miracle by Cerna Aragon, Diego Alonso

“…These controversies confronted different actors that are normally considered part of this consensus: government technocrats, business journalists, corporate leaders, etc. …”
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The institutional structure of macroprudential policy in the UK: an assessment of the accountability mechanisms of the Financial Policy Committee by Kaprinis, K

“…</p> <p>The main argument is that FPC members are susceptible to influence by the regulated sector which may cause the FPC to deviate from purely technocratic promotion of the public interest. Our study proposes an effective accountability regime for the FPC that should decrease the agency costs of delegation to an independent MPP authority and any subsequent welfare losses.…”

National Qualifications in Scotland: a lightning rod for public concern about equity in pandemic by Hayward, L, Baird, J-A, Godfrey-Faussett, T, Randhawa, A, Allen, S, MacIntosh, E, Hutchinson, C, Spencer, E, Wiseman-Orr, ML

“…Drawing on these factors the article suggests that when considering what matters for qualifications to be trusted, technocratic solutions are likely to be rejected by stakeholders. …”

Educating Engineers: Contribution Of Muslim Women Educators In Universiti Teknologi Malaysia by Abdul Majid, Fadzilah Adibah, Md. Salleh, Liza, Jusoh, Mazura, Borham, Abdul Jalil

“…They themselves are professionals and involve in educating technocrats and professionals. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia is one of the engineering universities in Malaysia with the main aims to educating engineers. …”
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From Industry 4.0 towards Industry 5.0: A Review and Analysis of Paradigm Shift for the People, Organization and Technology by Marina Crnjac Zizic, Marko Mladineo, Nikola Gjeldum, Luka Celent

“…The critics of the Industry 4.0 paradigm emphasized its orientation to new technologies and digitalization in a technocratic way. Therefore, the new industrial paradigm Industry 5.0 appeared very soon and automatically triggered a debate about the role of, and reasons for applying, the new paradigm. …”
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Examining the factors influencing fintech adoption behaviour of gen Y in India by Meghna Aggarwal, Keyurkumar M Nayak, Viral Bhatt

“…It will also help the financial technocrats to optimally utilize the immense underlying capabilities of the fintech users and strategically launch more user-friendly products and services.…”
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From Marshall Plan to “Hilton in the wild”: The Transnational History of a Cooperative Housing Block in Esat, Ankara by Sıla Karataş

“…It provides an in-depth analysis of the technocratic making of the housing block, through all different stages of its development, from founding “the cooperative in the wild” to building “Esat’s Hilton,” as its initiators and residents called it. …”
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The irresistible solution: rationale and risks of extending water limits through desalination in the case of Gotland, Sweden by Sophia Speckhahn, Ellinor Isgren

“…Rather than arguing against desalination per se, we emphasize the risk of the depoliticization of water supply through technocratic decision-making, the normalization of scarcity and certain technologies, and the urgency that builds around increasing water supply 'at any economic cost.' …”
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Towards a paradigm shift in environmental health decision-making: a case study of oxybenzone by Klara Matouskova, Laura N. Vandenberg

“…We conclude that both ethical and practical considerations should be included in decisions about the commercial, pervasive application of synthetic compounds and that the current flawed practice of cost-benefit analysis be recognized for what it is: a technocratic approach to support corporate interests.…”
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L’ago della discordia. Scienza, politica e contestazione nel dibattito pubblico by Luca Raffini, Federico Zuolo

“…The unconditional faith in institutions, demanded by technocrats, is overturned by an unconditional mistrust, which does not allow for open claims and compromises. …”
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Political elite of modern Russia: crisis of formation by Michail A. Burda

“…In the article the author considers the historical context of the formation of elite groups and privileged minorities, and draws attention to features of "technocratic parliamentarism", which is inherent in States with a parliamentary form of government and does not implement at present in Russia, with its prevailing system of governance by public authorities. …”
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The Pattern Language Approach as a Bridge Connecting Formal and Informal Urban Planning Practices in Africa by Priscilla Namwanje, Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Roberto Rocco

“…As in other cities in Africa with a colonial past, Kampala’s planning system signals a profound gap between a technocratic, European paradigms-based type of planning and the everyday practices of citizens. …”
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Las humanidades digitales y los estudios literarios by Martin Paul Eve

“…The so-called "digital humanities" (or "HD" to those in the know), which is wiping out all conventional funding for traditional humanities activities, brings a shady entrepreneurial spirit and a technocratic mindset to language, history, classics, archaeology, and any other disciplinary space it can get its hands on. …”
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“What Would the Mushrooms Say?” Speculating Inclusive and Optimistic Futures with Nature as Teacher by Julia Reade

“…Instead of only reckoning with white settler colonialism’s false promises of technocratic off-planet societies, students interact with a multiplicity of apocalypses and possibilities found in Indigenous cosmologies, mythologies, epistemologies, and speculative fiction of Indigenous, Indigequeer, queer writers of color, and the natural world. …”
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