Abstract
The governance of multi-party ventures ultimately depends on comprehensive and accurate evidence of who communicated what, to whom and when, under which mandate and for what purposes. Conventional platforms and applications treat these questions of accountability and responsibility as audit afterthoughts. Issues, such as purposes, rights, duties and constraints, are carried in peoples’ heads or in contractual and regulatory documents, independent of or, at best, implicit, in the system itself. Very little concrete architectural guidance exists about rendering properties such as accountability and contextual integrity systemic, that is to say, as aspects of code-level solutions. This paper proposes a shift of paradigm from Data Processing and Distribution (DPD) and basic communications (BC), to Structured Communications (SC) which is defined as multi-party information exchange, in the context of evolving sets of explicitly promulgated and agreed purposes, roles, norms and expectations. An implementation of a trustworthy, governable platform, (TGP), which addresses these challenges, has been deployed, and has been in use, for six months, in the context of complex adult social care. While this work is in its very early stages, preliminary analytic data on the dynamics of initial adoption and use is presented in the final section of the paper.
Recommended Citation
Martin, Mike, "The Trustworthy, Governable Platform: an infrastucture to support accountability and governability in complex, multi-party enterprise." (2025). OISI Workshop 2025. 2.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/oisiworkshop2025/2