OII | Fair Tracing Project

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Overview
Key Information
Publications
Participants

Overview

The aim of the Fair Tracing project is to support Ethical Trade by implementing IT Tracking and Tracing Technologies in supply chains to provide consumers and producers with enhanced information.

The project started in October 2006 and is funded by the EPSRC; see our entry on the EPSRC website at http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/E009018/1.

Key Information

Funder:

EPSRC

Project dates:
October 2006 - September 2009

Contact:
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All Publications

Dorothea Kleine (2007) “Striking a Balance”, Engineering and Technology, 2:2, 30-33 [Page 1 Page 2]
Christian Wallenta, Mohamed Ahmed, Ian Brown, Stephen Hailes and Felipe Huici (2008) “We know what you did at 9am – analysis of systems with dynamic user- generated content“, Proceedings of Multi-Service Networks (Abingdon, UK, 7 October 2008).
Dorothea Kleine (2008) “Negotiating partnerships, understanding power: doing action research on Chilean Fairtrade wine value chains”,The Geographical Journal, 174:2, pp 109-123.
Ashima Chopra (2008) “The Fair Tracing project and the case study of establishing traceability for coffee in India: Is technological development necessary for social development?”, in Dimitrios Rigas (Ed)Proceedings of the Ninth Informatics Workshop for Research Students(University of Bradford School of Informatics, June 2008), pp 109-112.
Ashima Chopra and Apurba Kundu (2008) “The Fair Tracing project: digital tracing technology and Indian coffee”, Contemporary South Asia, 16:2, June, pp 217-230.
A. Dearden and Ann Light (2008) “On Social Function: New Language for Discussing Technology for Social Action“, Proceedings of the Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC) Symposium 2008 (California, USA, 26-29 June 2008).
A. Dearden and Ann Light (2008) “Designing for e-Social Action: An Application Taxonomy“, Proceedings of Undisciplined! Design Research Society (DRS) Conference 2008 (Sheffield, UK, 16-19 July 2008).
Ashima Chopra and Apurba Kundu (2009) “The Fair Tracing project: mapping a traceable value chain for Indian coffee”,Contemporary South Asia, 17:2, June, pp 213-223.
Dorothea Kleine (2009) “ICT4What? Using the Choice Framework to Operationalise the Capability Approach to Development“, Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Technology and Development (ICTD) 2009 (Doha, Qatar, 17-19 April 2009); received “Honourable Mention” (runner-up to Best Paper award), pp 108-117.
Dorothea Kleine and Tim Unwin (2009) “Technological Revolution, Evolution and New Dependencies: what’s new about ICT4D?“, Third World Quarterly, 30:5, pp 1045-1067.
A. Light and T.D. Anderson (2009) Research Project as Boundary Object: negotiating the conceptual design of a tool for International Development, Proceedings of the Euopean Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW09; Vienna, Austria, 7-11 September 2009), pp 21-42.
Ann Light (2010) “Bridging Global Digital Divides with Tracking and Tracing Technology“, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 9:2, April-June, pp 28-36.
Ann Light, Dorothea Kleine and Macarena Vivent (2010, forthcoming) “Performing Charlotte: A Tool to Bridge Cultures in Participatory Design“, International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development, 2:1, Jan-Mar, pp 36-58.
Dorothea Kleine (2010) “How fair is fair enough? Negotiating alterity and compromise within the German Fair Trade movement”, pp 113-130, in D. Fuller, Andrew E.G. Jonas & R. Lee (eds), Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces (Ashgate).
Dorothea Kleine, Ann Light and Maria-Jose Montero (2012) “Signifiers of the life we value? Considering human development, technologies and Fair Trade from the perspective of the capabilities approach“, Information Technology for Development, 18:1, pp 42-60.

Participants

Professor Ian Brown

Former Research Fellow

Professor Ian Brown was Professor of Information Security and Privacy at the OII. His research is focused on surveillance, privacy-enhancing technologies, and Internet regulation.

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Ashima Chopra

School of Informatics, University of Bradford

Dorothea Kleine

Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London

Apurba Kundu

School of Informatics, University of Bradford

Ann Light

Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London

Christian Wallenta

Computer Science, University College London