Future Sustainable and Humanity-centred Intelligent Networks - Translating Theory into Practise

Abstract

Intelligent networks with the associated user-interaction modalities (human-centric mechanisms) should be helping humans in their everyday activities by actively promoting human control, safety, ethics, and well-being. With intelligent networks' growing role, from facilitators in support of humans' lives and well-being to the future role as systems “designing relations between humans and the world”, their design will determine to a greater extent the character of the way humans' live their lives. At the same time, the rapid evolution of intelligent network technologies has ever more profound implications for humans and societies, and has triggered visions and initiatives to re-align the Next-Generation networks with what works for humans and humanity first. However, there is a mismatch between higher-level design intentions and reality in the context of human-centric intelligent network infrastructure, which calls for a shift and re-alignment of how human-centred theory is translated into technical configurations and practise. This P.h.D project outline investigates how future technology roadmaps can intertwine human-centric theory with the inner mechanics of IoT system technologies. In future research phases, innovation scenarios and breakthroughs are explored to direct the recommended technical specifications toward what is desirable for humanity's well-being that genuinely enhances human empowerment, with greater degrees of inclusivity, meaningful human control, and involvement. Finally, a recommendation for how to technically translate the humanity-centred network infrastructure in practise, will be investigated.