[open-government] Open Courts went live in Slovakia

Wed Jul 31 12:35:26 UTC 2013

Looks great, Matej! Do you have any initial groups of users lined up? Seems
like something that journalists and researchers in Slovakia would be most
interested in using.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Matej Kurian <kurian at transparency.sk>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Open Courts (http://bit.ly/OpenCourts for google translate; otherwise
> www.otvorenesudy.sk), a project co-developed by Transparency Slovakia
> went live yesterday. To my best knowledge, it is one of the first portals
> dealing with bringing easy access to judicial data and some comparison on
> justices' performance.
>
>
> The site brings at least 5 different data sources together and provides
> easy access to profiles of judges, courts as well as more than 500k
> rulings, all of them searchable. As on Open Contracts, users can create
> notification for new data, based on their preferences.
>
> See a short roundup in the Slovak Spectator -
> http://spectator.sme.sk/articles/view/50797/10/tis_new_website_casts_light_on_slovak_judiciary.html
>
> Open Courts run on Ruby and the code is available here:
> https://github.com/otvorenesudy
>
> We are also looking into potential partnerships/grants to continue our
> works on the project.
>
> Let me know what you think!
>
> Best,
> Matej
> --
> Matej Kurian
> programovy koordinator
> Transparency International Slovensko
> kurian at transparency.sk
>
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>
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