20 Innovations in Legal Aid by the LSC

2011 Innovations Session Workshop Book Now Available!

At the 2011 Centennial NLADA Conference, Legal Services Corporation, AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly andManagement Information Exchange offered a series of presentations at a session titled Innovations in Civil Legal Services. The book by the same name features 20 innovations ranging from a PBS-aired documentary, to smartphone legal aid apps, to new approaches to intake, and many more.

Please click here to access the full version of the of the workshop book. The book is also broken up into sections below.

Addtionally, workshop books from 2007-2010 can be found here.

2011 Innovations Workshop book:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV

The Fail Faire DC 2011 Impact: A Renaissance of Failure in ICT4D

via ICTWorks by Wayan Vota on 10/24/11

Two weeks ago, ICTworks led the organization of Fail Faire DC, an amazing celebration of failure as a mark of leadership, innovation, and risk-taking in pushing the boundaries of what is possible in scaling ideas from pilots to global programs.

Our goal was to continue the Fail Faire movement started by Mobile Active, and make failure more acceptable in the international development community. So far, the impact of Fail Faire DC 2011 is greater than we anticipated. Yes, the event itself was amazing, and others agree, but more importantly, it spawned a greater conversation around failure and the need to fail if we are to expand our profession.

Here is a quick tour of the Fail Faire DC impact to date:

• Learn about the 10 levels of ICT4D failure, including the "epic fail", better know as the face palm 
• Check out the FailFaireDC photos on Flickr. Relive your favorite slides and remember your favorite presenters. 
• Read the Slate.com article. We had a great write up, complete with the academic underpinnings to our erstwhile activities. 
• Read a presenter's first-person account. Tessie San Martin, CEO of Plan International USA was a FailfaireDC presenter and is proud of her failures 
• Learn how NOT to plan a FailFaire. Ian Thorpe explains that going big is not a path to success 
• And how to fail successfully. Or that's the boast from NDI Tech, who somehow failed to attend FailfaireDC. 
• Join Admitting Aid Failure, the second Aid Blog Forum. The aid bloggers are taking our idea to the Internets. 
• While "just say no" to admitting failure is the American Public Health Association's contribution, as talking about failure might scare off donors 
• Yet EWB admits failure annually and still somehow gains funding and buzz 

Look for a FailFaireNYC. Mobile Active is teaming with Unicef to have a FailFaire in New York City this December. Most of all, remember to fail in everything you do. Only then are you showing leadership and innovation in pushing the boundaries of what is possible in scaling ICT and international development.

World Bank's Law, Justice and Development E-Newsletter, September 2011

The newest Law, Justice and Development E-Newsletter is out. Started last year, this is a quarterly e-newsletter providing news, perspectives and events relating to Law, Justice and Development topics. It is produced by the World Bank's Legal Vice Presidency with contributions from experts inside and outside the World Bank.