Traceability

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup; Matthew Archer; Louis Ravn

doi:10.14763/2022.1.1646

Traceability

Nanna Bonde Thylstrup
, Matthew Archer
, Louis Ravn

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Abstract

Traceability is an increasingly prominent research topic in decentralised technosocial systems in fields as diverse as health, sustainability, finance, and supply chain management. At the same time, traceability connotes different meanings and potentialities within each of these fields. This Glossary article homes in on “traceability” as a concept that is deceptively simple but fundamentally crucial in blockchain technologies. First, the entry provides an overview of the historical background of traceability within digital technologies. The entry then outlines the most critical dimensions of the concept by relating the term to questions about accountability, explainability, and speculation. Finally, emergent methodological and theoretical insights concerning traceability as a paradoxical concept in distributed technologies are highlighted.

Original language	English
Journal	Internet Policy Review
Volume	11
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-12
Number of pages	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14763/2022.1.1646
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes

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Funding

Published: 30 March 2022 Received: 14 September 2021 Accepted: 21 December 2021 Funding: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup and Louis Ravn’s contribution is indebted to the generous funding of the Independent Research Fund Denmark for the research project AI Reuse”, grant number 9131-00115B. Competing Interests: The author has declared that no competing interests exist that have influenced the text. Licence: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (Germany) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/deed.en Copyright remains with the author(s).

Keywords

Accountability
Message tracing
Traceability
Tracing app

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