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

[Steven Clift]

I missed listing another one:
The first is http://witsjusticeproject.com/ [http://witsjusticeproject.com/] who work on opening up data from the judiciary in South Africa Gov

The second is a partnership between the East-West Management Institute and the
Ministry of Justice in Liberia 
http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/project/ending-abuse-of-pre-trial-detention-practices-in-liberia/
[http://www.makingallvoicescount.org/project/ending-abuse-of-pre-trial-detention-practices-in-liberia/]



Also, feel free to send me anything important that I missed:
clift at e-democracy.org
Steve

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Steven Clift wrote:

> 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

>

> 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.








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