EAGER - Values in Design for Future Internet Architecture - Next Phase

未来互联网架构的设计价值分析——下一阶段（VID4FIA-NP）项目的EAGER资助支持跨学科合作新模式的实验，使用未来互联网架构项目作为令人兴奋的测试平台，并将社会、伦理、法律和经济问题与FIA-NP项目团队的技术工作相结合。VID4FIA-NP将建立一个VID专家网络，并在FIA项目面临的挑战中找到共同点，使用VID方法分析和设计技术，推荐社会价值，这些价值可以作为设计要求，同时也可以作为更传统的技术限制。这些活动将产生一些事件，将VID方法与原型和测试过程、工作文件、可能的联合出版物和其他将我们的发现和方法正式化的文件联系起来。智力价值：在广泛的研究人员和学者群体中，关于技术是或不是价值自由的含义，存在着各种各样的、激烈争论的观点。有一些较小的证据表明，技术的特征可以主动调整，以产生与道德和社会相关的结果。VID4FIA-NP将通过为社会科学家、人文主义者、经济学家、法律和政策专家以及技术专家提供机会，就具有社会和道德重要性的坚韧设计特征进行合作，从而为这场辩论做出重大而令人信服的贡献。除了对技术的社会维度的一般理解的潜在贡献之外，该项目还可以深入了解如何操作抽象概念，如安全、隐私等，以及如何在架构、协议、机制等中实现它们。这些贡献不仅可以直接影响FIA-NP项目，还可以对一般的IT设计甚至其他技术具有重要意义。更广泛的影响：生活在技术带来的后果中，我们不可避免地会为一些人喝彩，为另一些人哀叹。这样的评估可以是回顾性的，但对于VID网络中的方法，承诺采取行动，系统地调整系统和设备的材料元素可以影响社会相关的结果。在意识到天真的技术决定论的缺陷后，以促进（或不破坏）社会价值实现的系统和人工制品来衡量的回报可能是巨大的。在像FIA-NP项目这样雄心勃勃的研究背景下测试这些想法的机会，一方面为更好的技术和更深入地理解材料设计和价值的相互影响提供了希望。

An EAGER grant for the Values In Design analysis for Future Internet Architectures--Next Phase (VID4FIA-NP) project supports experimentation with a new model for interdisciplinary collaboration, using the Future Internet Architecture projects as an exciting testbed, and integrating social, ethical, legal, and economic issues with the technical work of the FIA-NP project teams. VID4FIA-NP will build a network of VID experts and find common ground with the challenges faced by the FIA projects, using the VID methodologies for analyzing and designing technology that recommends social values that can serve as design requirements alongside more traditional technical constraints. These activities will produce events that connect VID approaches with the prototyping and testing process, and working papers, possible joint publications and other documents formalizing our findings and methods.Intellectual Merit: Within the extensive community of researchers and scholars there are diverse, hotly contested views on what it means to say that technology is or is not value free. There are smaller demonstrations of the claim that features of technology can actively be adjusted to yield morally and socially relevant outcomes. VID4FIA-NP will make significant, convincing contributions to this debate by providing opportunities for social scientists, humanists, economists, legal and policy experts, and technical experts to collaborate on gritty design features that are socially and ethically important. Beyond potential contributions to the general understanding of social dimensions of technology, the project could yield insights into how to operationalize abstract concepts such as security, privacy, etc. and how to implement them in architecture, protocol, mechanism, etc. Not only could these contributions directly affect the FIA-NP projects, they could have significance for IT design generally, and even beyond, to other technologies. Broader Impacts: Living with the consequences of technology, it is inevitable that we applaud some and bemoan others. Such evaluation can be retrospective, but for approaches in the VID network, there is commitment to pro-action, making adjustments in material elements of systems and devices systematically can affect socially relevant outcomes. Aware of the pitfalls of naive technological determinism, the payout measured in terms of systems and artifacts that promote--or do not subvert--attainment of societal values, is potentially great. The opportunity to test out these ideas in a research context as ambitious as the FIA-NP projects holds promise for better technology and deeper understanding of the mutual shaping influence of material design on the one hand and values on the other.