[open-government] Judiciary open gov/OGP efforts?

[Steven Clift]

As I have received as many requests for the results as I did tips,
here is a summary of what I received or found.


In private notes/surfing:

1. The technology of access to justice: Rechtwijzer 2.0
http://www.innovatingjustice.com/blogs/the-technology-of-access-to-justice-rechtwijzer-2-0

2. Canadian Centre for Court Technology
http://wiki.modern-courts.ca/Canadian_Centre_for_Court_Technology

3. Justice 2.0: Online Dispute Resolution - Great speaker bios
http://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/events/event_IAP18540

4. Open Data for Open Justice: A case study of the judiciaries of
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay
http://www.opendataresearch.org/dl/symposium2015/odrs2015-paper10.pdf

5. Israel: ... there is a ruling by Israel's Supreme Court from
roughly a year ago, in which it upheld a lower instance ruling that
accepted a motion by a newspaper to order the courts' administration
to release information regarding the backlog of individual judges
(i.e. by their names). This is from December 14 and will come into
force December 15, so beginning that date, they will have to make
public all their backlogs, which is sort of a project, even if
enforced upon the courts' administration by ruling.

6. US PACER related:
https://www.pacer.gov/
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/opportunity-missed-why-were-not-thrilled-restoration-pacer-access-certain-court
http://freelawproject.org/
https://www.recapthelaw.org/


7. Other links:
http://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2011/02/18/access-to-justice-2-0/
https://e-justice.europa.eu/home.do?plang=en&action=home
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/browse/summaries.html
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/eJustice-1855037/about
https://twitter.com/ukopenjustice
http://www.city.ac.uk/centre-for-law-justice-and-journalism/projects/open-justice-in-the-digital-era
http://www.mass.gov/courts/docs/lawlib/docs/reinventingjustice.pdf
(from 1992, see Carlos top link just below)

In public notes:

1. Carlos E. Jiménez Gómez c.jimenez at estratic.com via lists.okfn.org

Jun 3 (2 days ago)
to open-government
Dear Steven,
Yes.

Please, see this post in the joinup European Commission website:
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/community/opengov/news/open-justice-transparency-and-proximity-justice-within-current-context-open-g

The link at the end of the post is not correct. The correct link to
the Open Government Partnership website is this one, where you can
read the index of the research [EN] [ES] [CAT]
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/blog/carlos-e-jimenez/2014/12/12/actualizado-concluida-investigación-sobre-justicia-abierta-algunas

You can download the full report of the research on Open Justice at
the official website ([ES][CAT]:
http://justicia.gencat.cat/ca/ambits/formacio_recerca_documentacio/recerca/cataleg_d_investigacions/per_ordre_cronologic/2015/justicia-oberta-transparencia-i-proximitat-open-government/

In addition, this recent paper is new, about the back office & the
open data in justice:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=7114455&isnumber=7114453


Finally, at the end of 2015 it will be available the book
http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1641

I hope it will help you.
Best regards,
Carlos


Carlos E. Jiménez Gómez
Open & Smart Gov Specialist
IEEE e-Government Chair
Barcelona, Spain.
http://about.me/estratic  |  @estratic  |




2.

Fabrizio Scrollini

Jun 3 (2 days ago)
to me, OGP, open-government, eGovIG, newswire
I guess you can check this example from Argentina
http://chequeado.com/justiciapedia/
Unfortunately Latin America has an emerging community around this and
some research but it is not the "hottest' topic around. The Judiciary
does not engage in OGP so far.

Best

Fabrizio


3.

Alexander Howard

Jun 3 (2 days ago)
to me, OGP
You can sort through a database of 948 OGP commitments here, Steven:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ua7HcCbd69HDKqiz7FW2QKr5ExH4cTNmupuVROdBEeU/edit?usp=sharing

Bahl explains:
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/blog/abhinav-bahl/2014/11/13/so-what%E2%80%99s-those-new-ogp-action-plans-anyway-2014-edition

I found 8 instances of "court" but using other keywords like "justice"
may reveal others.

4.

Steven Clift <clift at e-democracy.org>

Jun 3 (2 days ago)
to Benjamin, Fabrizio, open-government, OGP, eGovIG
Thanks Benjamin.

I encourage folks to check out this tool announced just the other day:
http://www.opengovpartnership.org/blog/paul-maassen/2015/05/28/introducing-ogp-explorer

Very nice.

Selecting "Judiciary" under "Who is Affected" brings up 11 of the 998
OGP commitments from six countries. Selecting "Justice: Law
Enforcement and Justice" brings up 17 commitments from 12 countries.

I exported the data to try and get a look at the actual written
commitments, but I haven't figured that out yet ... or perhaps I need
another source to then find the story behind the data.