Values for a Post-Pandemic Future

Value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis, prioritizing values from the beginning and addressing ethical acceptability and societal acceptance together. This volume provides diachronic reflections on the crisis response to address long-term moral consequences in light of the post-pandemic future.

Format: Hardback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 14 September 2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This open-access book explores the role of value-sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering in the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies and other tools necessitates considering values in the context of a pandemic and beyond. Instilling values should be a priority from the outset, not only in the emergency response but also in navigating the emerging societal precedents, new norms of health surveillance, and new public health requirements. The contributors with expertise in VSD bridge the gap between ethical acceptability and social acceptance, guiding COVID-technologies in a way that enhances their ability to combat the virus and outlining pathways for resolving moral dilemmas. This volume offers diachronic reflections on the crisis response to address long-term moral consequences in the post-pandemic future. Contact-tracing apps and immunity passports must operate within a multi-system environment, collaborating effectively with institutions, incentive structures, regulatory bodies, and existing legislation. This text is of significant interest to students, researchers, and professionals in the field.

Weight: 559g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031084232
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022