Diamonds or Dragonflies? A Question of Reshaping Societal Values

Symposium Sustainable Development and a New System of Societal Values

Eliciting Societal Values for Cyberstalking Policy Decisions

Cyberstalking is a significant challenge in the era of Internet and technology. When dealing with cyberstalking, institutions and governments alike have a problem in how to manage it and where to allocate resources. Hence, it is important to understand how individuals feel about the problem of cyberstalking so it can be managed in the context of cybersecurity. To do this the problem question is...

Workshop on Network Design and Societal Values

One mark of a great technology is its capacity to transform and be transformed. This we have witnessed in the relatively short lifespan of digital electronic networks, as societies have reacted to them and, in turn, shaped and reshaped them in multiple iterative cycles of mutual transformation. For scientists and engineers, the challenges are legion. In this document, however, we report on some...

A Curriculum for Excellence: a Question of Values

A Curriculum for Excellence outlines a curriculum for young people in Scotland from age 3 to 18. In the report, endorsed wholly by Scottish ministers, much is made of the underpinning values of the proposed curriculum. However, the absence of any consultation period has meant that such values and the report itself have not been subject to systematic debate by parliament, public, or the educatio...

The evolution of societal values compatible with ecological sustainability