The Fair Tracing Project

The following publications focus on and/or feature the Fair Tracing Project and its results (with Fair Tracing members in bold).

• 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.

Forthcoming (2010)

• 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 2010.
• Dorothea Kleine (2010, forthcoming) “How fair is fair enough? Negotiating alterity and compromise within the German Fair Trade movement”, in D. Fuller, A.E. Jonas & R. Lee, Alternative Economic and Political Spaces (Ashgate).
• Ann Light (2010, forthcoming) “Barriers to Bridging: Can we cross Global Divides with Trac(k)ing Technology?”, Pervasive Computing (IEEE) special issue on ‘Labelling the World’.

In preparation (2010 onwards)

• Ian Brown, Ann Light, Dorothea Kleine and Apurba Kundu (in preparation) “Case Four: Fair Tracing”, in Andy Dearden and Dorothea Kleine (eds) Designing ICT4D.
• Ann Light (in preparation) “A Development Perspective on the Challenges in Implementing ‘Auto-Identification’ of Objects”, submitted to Ubicomp 2009, Florida, USA Antipode.
• Dorothea Kleine (in preparation) “From solidarity coffee to fine wine: The changing images of Fair Trade”, Antipode.
• Dorothea Kleine and Ann Light (in preparation) “Designing with Partners in the Global South: Empowering producers, informing consumers”.