This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD) responsible innovation and
comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the
COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies and other
tools requires thinking about values in the context of a pandemic as well as in a post-COVID
world. Instilling values must be prioritized from the beginning not only in the emergency
response to the pandemic but in how to proceed with new societal precedents materializing 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. By
addressing ethical acceptability and societal acceptance together VSD guides
COVID-technologies in a way that strengthens their ability to fight the virus and outlines
pathways for the resolution of moral dilemmas. This volume provides diachronic reflections on
the crisis response to address long-term moral consequences in light of the post-pandemic
future. Both contact-tracing apps and immunity passports must work in a multi-system
environment and will be required to succeed alongside institutions incentive structures
regulatory bodies and current legislation. This text appeals to students researchers and
importantly professionals in the field.
