Collaborative Network 5.0: By Design Human Values and Human-Centred Based Extended Collaborative Networks.

Collaborative Networks (CNs) as a new discipline play an important part in the continuing digital transformation of business and services, taking advantage of Information and Communication Technology’s growing sociability and usability qualities to enable and improve partnership that results in competitive solutions. While CNs could get benefit from technological development, it could inherit its disadvantages, through violation of human-centeredness and human values. Recently proposed Collaborative Networks 4.0 addressed some of these issues in three-dimensional CNs. However, while the 4th generation of CNs putting ethics and intelligent autonomous systems into account, it does not assume “by design” approach in implementation of these characteristics as an obligation. It also overlooks the generation of communication technologies such as Extended Reality. The current article by introducing the four-dimensional, human-centred, human-value based, 5th generation of CNs aimed to cover the previous generations of CNs’ constraints in dealing with society 5.0’s challenges.