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 of the complex interactions between network science and technology and societal values, focusing on moral, political, and sometimes also cultural values.