Building digital trust to protect whistleblowers - A blockchain-based reporting channel
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2023
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04B - Conference paper
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Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
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4328-4337
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Maui
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Abstract
Organizations today need internal reporting channels to report illegal/unethical misconduct. For this purpose, organizations set up one or more - often digital - internal reporting channels. Persons/Employees who want to report misconduct, so-called whistleblowers, expose themselves to reprisals and therefore need trustworthy reporting channels which ensure ´Digital Trust´. Blockchain, a technology that overcomes the need for trust due to its properties of immutability and integrity of data, could be promising as underlying technology for a digital reporting channel which is recognized as trustworthy. In our research, we explored multiple perspectives relevant to a trustworthy digital reporting system. Applying design science research, we evaluated the current state of the art of (digital) reporting channels and developed a prototypical blockchain-based reporting solution called “Integrity@Inside”. The prototype is being iteratively demonstrated and pre-evaluated.
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330 - Wirtschaft
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56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICCS-56)
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03.01.2023
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06.01.2023
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978-0-9981331-6-4
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English
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Published
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Diamond
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ASPRION, Petra, Hermann GRIEDER und Frank GRIMBERG, 2023. Building digital trust to protect whistleblowers - A blockchain-based reporting channel. In: Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Maui. 2023. S. 4328–4337. ISBN 978-0-9981331-6-4. Verfügbar unter: https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-7360