[open-government] Open Courts went live in Slovakia

Wed Jul 31 15:46:20 UTC 2013

Great to see this went live. Kudos to Matej and all the great folks in
Slovakia who always do inspiring work.

Does anyone know about any other project based on judicial data?

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Matej Kurian <kurian at transparency.sk>wrote:

>  Thanks Susannah, we tried hard! And you are right on - we're hoping
> journalists and researchers will be the power users.
>
> Unfortunately, there's no direct funding for trainings or dissemination
> right now, but this is most certainly something we're working on :)
>
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> On 7/31/2013 2:35 PM, Susannah Vila wrote:
>
> 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
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>> Transparency International Slovensko
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