tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82521731579645005322024-03-04T21:42:33.020-08:00SanNg:DevLawGeekSan Ng's blog. See main site at www.sanng.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-2982132707082226242013-04-22T03:49:00.000-07:002018-10-22T05:26:19.306-07:00This blog is now at BarefootLawyers International!This blog has now been migrated to the <a href="http://www.barefootlawyers.org/">blog under BarefootLawyers International</a> (<a href="http://www.barefootlawyers.org/">www.barefootlawyers.org</a>).<br />
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For those of you who have been following this blog closely (especially my students), you would have heard many announcements of my intention to migrate this DevLawGeek blog to the <a href="http://www.barefootlawyers.org/">BarefootLawyers International website and blog</a>. So it has finally happened.<br />
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I established <a href="http://www.barefootlawyers.org/">BarefootLawyers International</a> as part of my UC Berkeley visitorship and continuing connection. In personal terms, it is basically me growing up and finally establishing a more formal organization that, in 2013, is still essential to appear legitimate to most of society, especially the developing world, so that I can expand innovative activities with more people, and in a more formal manner.<br />
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So please do follow me on <a href="http://www.barefootlawyers.org/">BarefootLawyers International</a>, where we will hear more voices other than my own. See you there!<div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-31525422909305573132013-03-20T17:58:00.000-07:002013-04-17T13:55:07.044-07:00UC Berkeley CFP: Is There a New Development? Symposium 5-6 April 2013<br>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UC Berkeley Center for Science Technology Medicine & Society: </span><img alt="newdevelopmentsmall-v4" class="alignright wp-post-image" height="200" src="http://cstms.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/newdevelopmentsmall-v4-590x393.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; float: right; font-style: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 2px 7px; max-width: 590px; padding: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="300"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Call for Papers</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The promise and politics of provincializing experts, models, and knowledge in the 21st century</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Development, understood as a set of aspirations, an organizational field, sets of expertise, or a guiding imaginary has shifted in response to the post-colonial growth of democracy in the South, the rise of multi-stakeholder partnerships and sustainability discourses, and the frenzied search for innovative models by policy makers worldwide. The North to South transfer of aid and tools, a process in which Northern experts were central, has opened up to the transfer of policies – like impact assessments, ecosystem services, or public health programs – in which Southern experts are increasingly involved. A ‘local’ view of the world has been promoted as more sensitive and appropriate to local, real-world needs and customs for many decades by development scholars and practitioners. However, we are now seeing not only ‘local’ models and policies being developed in situ in democratic countries such as Chile, but we are also seeing the rise of ‘Southern’-led international cooperation agreements, and ‘Southern’ models travelling to the ‘North’. For example, transport policies from Bogota are being implemented in San Francisco, while multiple African nations are receiving development aid from Brazil and technical advice from Bolivia.</span><br>
</div></div><a href="http://blog.sanng.com/2012/12/uc-berkeley-cfp-is-there-new.html#more">Read the rest of this post »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-64967179814946963552013-01-07T13:50:00.000-08:002013-04-17T13:54:38.296-07:00New Paper on Global Privatization by David Brown<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #003366; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=76010" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;" target="new">J. David Brown</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;">, US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Heriot-Watt University - Centre for Economic Reform and Transformation (CERT), </span><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=32789" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;" target="new"><span style="color: #003366;">John S. Earle</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;">, George Mason University - School of Public Policy, Central European University (CEU) - Department of Economics, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and </span><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=32940" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;" target="new"><span style="color: #003366;">Scott Gehlbach</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;">, University of Wisconsin, Madison - Department of Political Science, Harvard University - Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies have a new piece on </span><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1962827" style="background-color: white; color: #999999; line-height: 20.796875px; text-decoration: none;">Privatization</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.796875px;">.</span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-29504462712043283972012-09-04T18:00:00.000-07:002013-02-04T18:06:01.027-08:00"We the People" Software is now Open Source<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The software that powers "We the People" </span><a href="https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> -- the epetition platform for the U.S. Presidency -- has been made free and open source and is now available on GitHub </span><a href="https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petition" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://github.com/WhiteHouse/petition</a>. <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Here is background information from Andrew Webster at The Verge: </span><a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/24/3265491/white-house-we-the-people-open-source" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/24/3265491/white-house-we-the-people-open-source</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (shortlink: </span><a href="http://vrge.co/QBgO80" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://vrge.co/QBgO80</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> )</span></span> <div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-20939425585228809772012-04-03T12:06:00.001-07:002013-02-04T18:05:53.684-08:00New AfricLaw Blog for African Rule of Law Issues<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://africlaw.com/">AfricLaw</a>, launched in April 2012, is a blog which provides a platform for discussion for those interested in the rule and role of law in Africa. The<a href="http://africlaw.com/"> AfricLaw blog</a> is a joint venture of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) and the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All areas of law applicable to Africa are covered, both international (global and continental) and national. Legal academics and students, researchers, international and national civil servants, legislators and politicians, legal practitioners and judges, as well as those who are not lawyers but have an interest in law are among those who are welcome to participate in the discussions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AfricLaw provides a space for the discussion of issues of substance, forming of opinions and information sharing among people living on the continent, those from Africa who are in the diaspora, and anyone else who is interested in participating. AfricLaw will also serve as a vehicle for comments from Africa on legal developments in the rest of the world.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-17857598828628961012012-03-16T17:35:00.000-07:002013-02-04T18:05:06.247-08:00ABA Event: "Exploring Trends in Promoting the Rule of Law"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The American Bar Association (ABA) is presenting a workshop on "Exploring Trends in Promoting the Rule of Law".<br>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">March 28, 2012, 12:30–7:00 p.m.</span><br>
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<div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">What is most interesting to me is that Technology and Access to Justice is one of the topics of discussion, which is the niche that BarefootLawyers fell into some years ago by accident, and it is so nice to know that the field is expanding and being promoted by the usual suspects such as the ABA. Their topic description:</div></div><div><blockquote><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b>Technology and Access to Justice</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Technology holds significant potential for increasing access to justice. This panel will share examples of the ways in which technology has already contributed in this area, and, if better utilized, how technology can produce further gains. Does the democracy and governance community have realistic expectations about the potential of technology to increase access to justice and, more generally, to propel justice sector reform?</div></blockquote></div></div><a href="http://blog.sanng.com/2012/03/aba-event-exploring-trends-in-promoting.html#more">Read the rest of this post »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-80022433424292522572012-03-04T18:00:00.000-08:002013-02-04T18:06:43.567-08:00Berkman Series: Unexpected Development: Decolonial Media Aesthetics and Women’s ICT4D Video<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuesday, <b>April 17</b>, 12:30pm ET, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, Cambridge, MA. This event will be webcast live.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ICT4D (Information Communication Technology for Development) powerfully frames women's grassroots video production in the Global South, much of which is distributed widely through YouTube. Often, these videos reproduce racialized and gendered discourses - legacies of colonialism - in their narratives of economic, social, and technological progress. However, there are also videos by women's groups that defy both the historical linearity and spatial fragmentation of the ICT4D framework. These videos instead remix, reclassify, and globally reconnect women's experiences in the contemporary moment. Culled from hundreds of online videos produced by ICT4D programs, including those in countries classified as having "Low Human Development" according to the Gender Inequality Index of the United Nations Development Program, these media represent powerful instances of a decolonial aesthetics, an altogether unexpected development. These ICT4D videos make compelling claims for other historical narratives and visions for women's future lives, identities, and uses of information communication technologies. </span><br />
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<b>Dalida María Benfield's</b> research addresses artists' and activists' creative uses of video and other networked digital media towards social justice projects. Her work is focused on the transformational capacities of media art across different scales. As an artist and activist, she has developed production, education, exhibition, and distribution initiatives focused on youth, women, people of color in the U.S., and local and transnational social movements, including co-founding the media collective Video Machete. She received her Ph.D. in 2011 from the University of California-Berkeley in Comparative Ethnic Studies with Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. <b>RSVP Required. </b><a href="https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2012/04/benfield" style="color: #8d0003; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">more information on Berkman's website></a></span><br />
<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-80097989892877154612012-01-05T14:07:00.002-08:002013-02-04T18:06:27.215-08:00Top 5 Legal IT technologies of 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;">Following my last post on review of 2010/11 Legal Tech, here is what <a href="http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/">Jason from No Option for Law Firm</a> thinks are the top legal technologies for 2012 ie emerging technology for Legal in 2012 or that will be technology that will feature heavily in Legal in 2012. (And bear in mind, this is the US he is talking about, it will be a while before Africa gets that kind of broadband, even for law firms)</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Speech Recognition</li>
<li>Windows Phone/Android/iPhone : Or more to the point, the death of the blackberry in Legal.</li>
<li>SharePoint (Jason's on the fence about this, although I think that Law Firms will not be leaning toward Google Apps)</li>
<li>The return of the laptop/netbook : not that they ever really went away.</li>
<li>A new vendor emerging as a major Legal IT player : Jason thinks that the market is ripe for a new Legal focussed player to emerge. "I’m not sure where, but there seem to be plenty of opportunities for technology focus in Legal that aren’t being addressed or existing technology that is perhaps being forgotten as the traditional players diversify into other verticals."</li>
<li>There are things from the last few years that will continue in 2012, Office 2010 becoming the default platform and IM continuing to proliferate around Legal. But these feel more business as usual now. </li>
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</div><a href="http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/2012/01/top-5-legal-it-technologies-of-2012/"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Read Jason Plant's post on his No Option for Law Firm Blog</span></a></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-33378984020240073242012-01-03T16:34:00.000-08:002012-03-09T14:22:45.273-08:00Top 5 Legal IT technologies for 2010 and 2011 in Review<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px;">This list from <a href="http://www.jasonplant.co.uk/">Jason Plant’s Blog</a> (who is an IT expert who works in a law firm, who will post the 2012 list tomorrow) : </div><blockquote class="tr_bq">My 2010 list was as follows:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Mobile App<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">lications</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Search</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Office 2010/Windows 7</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Instant Messaging</span></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Speech Recognition</span></li></ul>And then in 2011 was:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Glue Tech</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Microsoft Lync</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>YouTube</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Mobile Applications</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Office 2010 and Windows 7</li></ul></blockquote>And I love what he said about the pace of legal tech, which underscores the overall pace of change, adaptability and innovation in the industry:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white;">"...it’s clear that things don’t move at a fast pace across the whole of Legal."</span></blockquote><span id="fullpost"> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-51161005950294362912012-01-02T16:06:00.002-08:002012-03-09T23:13:00.247-08:00Legal Opinion delivered via Poetry<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I read about this recent piece of brilliant poetry aka legal opinion on <a href="http://ma2j.wordpress.com/">Martin Gramatikov's Access to Justice blog</a>, and just had to share. This is an awesome twist to innovation in justice- using not new technology like cell phones or the internet (which we often blog about on this site), but old fashioned poetry. Admittedly, this judgement so much easier to read and understand than a typical legal document. Gives some food for thought about the dissemination of legal knowledge for legal empowerment- maybe we can have legal information in poetry via SMS!<span id="fullpost"></span><br>
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(reproduced partially from the <a href="http://www.pacourts.us/OpPosting/Supreme/out/J-24-2011oaj.pdf">legal opinion of Commonwealth v. Goodson here</a>):<br>
<blockquote>In January, 2001, appellant’s car was in a collision.<br>
His insurer totaled the aging New Yorker, then made a just division<br>
of the value of the insurance claim, sending $6,289 to the lender;<br>
the balance of $135, to appellant they made tender.</blockquote><br>
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From <a href="http://tig.lsc.gov/conference/upcoming-conference">The TIG/LSC website: </a>(You should also check out the rich <a href="http://tig.lsc.gov/conference/past-conferences-and-presentations">repository of past conference materials here</a>)<br>
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Registration: <a href="http://www.regonline.com/register/checkin.aspx?eventid=1022637">Click here to register online for the 2012 TIG Conference.</a>Registration for TIG attendees is $420, which includes all sessions, breakfast and lunch and one evening reception.<br>
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Where: LSC will be holding the 12th Annual TIG Conference in Albuquerque, NM at the <a href="http://embassysuites1.hilton.com/en_US/es/hotel/ABQEMES-Embassy-Suites-Albuquerque-Hotel-Spa-New-Mexico/index.do">Embassy Suites Albuquerque</a>, 1000 Woodward Pl. NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102. The TIG Conference rate is $81/night single occupancy and $101/night for double occupancy. Go to <a href="http://bit.ly/TIG2012Hotel">http://bit.ly/TIG2012Hotel</a> to book a hotel room online.<br>
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Recently published Needs evaluation survey by the South Pacific Lawyers Association reveal significant access to justice gaps in most of the studied countries:<br>
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Australia </li>
<li>Papua New Guinea </li>
<li>Cook Islands </li>
<li>Republic of the Fiji Islands </li>
<li>Kingdom of Tonga </li>
<li>Samoa </li>
<li>Kiribati </li>
<li>Solomon Islands </li>
<li>Nauru </li>
<li>Timor Leste </li>
<li>New Zealand </li>
<li>Tuvalu </li>
<li>Niue </li>
<li>Vanuatu </li>
<li>Norfolk Island </li>
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</div><a href="http://blog.sanng.com/2011/11/study-reports-access-to-justice-gaps-in.html#more">Read the rest of this post »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-61228002601201955552011-11-01T11:15:00.002-07:002012-03-09T23:14:57.831-08:00Tools to Create an Unbundled-Orriented Lawyer Referral Service<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">via <a href="http://accesstojustice.net/">Richard Zorza's Access to Justice Blog</a> by richardzorza on 10/31/11<br>
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The time is long past for every jurisdiction that allows unbundling — and of course now most do, to have such services available through lawyer referral and information services, ideally through a panel of the existing lawyer referral system. Lets face it, thats where the clients without lawyers enter into the system, and it is hard to understand why more LRIS do not offer this crucial affordability tool, particularly given the <a href="http://accesstojustice.net/2011/02/23/aba-delivery-of-legal-services-committee-poll-on-finding-private-lawyers-%E2%80%93-views-of-unbundling/">poll data on the public's interest in exploring the option</a>.<br>
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So it is important to draw attention to these <a href="http://richardzorza.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/lris-unbundling-materials.doc">LRIS Unbundling materials</a> developed to assist in the creation of such a panel. (Remember, of course that state law governs as to who is allowed to operate such a lawyer referral service.)<br>
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</div><a href="http://blog.sanng.com/2011/11/tools-to-create-unbundled-orriented.html#more">Read the rest of this post »</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-66307542113354638652011-11-01T11:13:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.432-08:00About the MetaLex Document Server for legal information<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">via Legal Informatics Blog by <a href="http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com/author/legalinformatics/">legalinformatics</a> <br /><br />Dr. Rinke Hoekstra of the University of Amsterdam's Leibniz Center for Law has posted The MetaLex Document Server, on the VoxPopuLII blog, published by the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School. In this post, Dr. Hoekstra describes the technology of the MetaLex Document Server, a new service that provides free public access to <a href="http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/new-on-voxpopulii-hoekstra-on-the-metalex-document-server/">Read more of this post</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-46042363649280699612011-10-30T15:11:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.452-08:0020 Innovations in Legal Aid by the LSC<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">2011 Innovations Session Workshop Book Now Available!<br /><br />At the 2011 Centennial NLADA Conference, <a href="http://lsc.gov/">Legal Services Corporation</a>, <a href="http://www.aarp.org/states/dc/LCE.html">AARP Legal Counsel for the Elderly </a>and<a href="http://www.m-i-e.org/index.html">Management Information Exchange</a> 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.<br /><br />Please click <a href="http://lri.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/LRI/docs/Innovationsbook2011.pdf">here</a> to access the full version of the of the workshop book. The book is also broken up into sections below.<br /><br />Addtionally, workshop books from 2007-2010 can be found <a href="http://lri.lsc.gov/performance-area1/program-evaluation/program-evaluations">here</a>.<br /><br />2011 Innovations Workshop book:<br /><a href="http://lri.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/LRI/docs/Innovationsbookpt1.pdf">Part I</a><br /><a href="http://lri.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/LRI/docs/Innovationsbookpt2.pdf">Part II</a><br /><a href="http://lri.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/LRI/docs/Innovationsbookpt3.pdf">Part III</a><br /><a href="http://lri.lsc.gov/sites/default/files/LRI/docs/Innovationsbookpt4.pdf">Part IV</a><span id="fullpost"></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-78379663703966991742011-10-25T11:28:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.469-08:00The Fail Faire DC 2011 Impact: A Renaissance of Failure in ICT4D<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">via <a href="http://www.ictworks.org/">ICTWorks</a> by Wayan Vota on 10/24/11<br /><br />Two weeks ago, ICTworks led the organization of <a href="http://failfairedc.com/">Fail Faire DC</a>, 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.<br /><br />Our goal was to continue the <a href="http://failfaire.org/">Fail Faire movement</a> 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 <a href="http://www.ictworks.org/news/2011/10/19/if-youre-not-failing-ict4d-youre-not-trying-hard-enough">event itself was amazing</a>, and <a href="http://www.k4health.org/blog/fail-faire-creating-advantage-past-mistakes">others agree</a>, but more importantly, it spawned a greater conversation around failure and the need to fail if we are to expand our profession.<br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3520904763520245316&postID=951344562310841949&from=pencil"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3520904763520245316&postID=951344562310841949&from=pencil"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3520904763520245316&postID=951344562310841949&from=pencil"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3520904763520245316&postID=951344562310841949&from=pencil"></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3520904763520245316&postID=951344562310841949&from=pencil"></a><br />Here is a quick tour of the Fail Faire DC impact to date:<br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Learn about the <a href="http://wayan.com/ict4d/10-levels-of-failure.html">10 levels of ICT4D failure</a>, including the "epic fail", better know as the face palm </li><li>Check out the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/inveneo/sets/72157627911702042/">FailFaireDC photos on Flickr</a>. Relive your favorite slides and remember your favorite presenters. </li><li><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2011/10/14/failfairedc_how_i_learned_to_stop_worrying_and_love_failure_.html">Read the Slate.com article</a>. We had a great write up, complete with the academic underpinnings to our erstwhile activities. </li><li><a href="https://lindaraftree.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/a-failure-and-proud-of-it/">Read a presenter's first-person account</a>. Tessie San Martin, CEO of Plan International USA was a FailfaireDC presenter and is proud of her failures </li><li><a href="https://kmonadollaraday.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/km-triple-fail-no-faire/">Learn how NOT to plan a FailFaire</a>. Ian Thorpe explains that going big is not a path to success </li><li><a href="http://www.demworks.org/blog/2011/10/failing-successfully">And how to fail successfully</a>. Or that's the boast from NDI Tech, who somehow failed to attend FailfaireDC. </li><li><a href="http://talesfromethehood.com/2011/10/14/the-2nd-aid-blog-forum-admitting-aid-failure/">Join Admitting Aid Failure</a>, the second Aid Blog Forum. The aid bloggers are taking our idea to the Internets. </li><li>While <a href="https://aphaih.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/admitting-failure-trendy-but-at-least-for-ngos-not-prudent/">"just say no" to admitting failure</a> is the American Public Health Association's contribution, as talking about failure might scare off donors </li><li>Yet <a href="http://www.ewb.ca/en/whoweare/accountable/failure.html">EWB admits failure annually</a> and still somehow gains funding and buzz </li></ul><a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/mobileactive/status/125239291491262464">Look for a FailFaireNYC</a>. 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.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-53098774541454314302011-10-01T16:55:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.490-08:00World Bank's Law, Justice and Development E-Newsletter, September 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The newest <a href="http://newsletters.worldbank.org/newsletters/listarticle.htm?aid=271126">Law, Justice and Development E-Newsletter</a> 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.<span id="fullpost"> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-90127182915771651562011-09-28T16:40:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.510-08:00Microjustice Initiative's 'Access to Justice' Handbook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">In light of my previous post on the <a href="http://blog.sanng.com/2010/05/undp-paper-on-evaluation-methodologies.html">UNDP Paper on Evaluation Methodologies for Legal Empowerment</a>, my colleague from <a href="http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/">Tilburg University</a> informed me that <a href="http://www.microjusticeinitiative.org/">Microjustice Initiative</a> (with <a href="http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/research/institutes-and-research-groups/tisco/">TISCO</a>, <a href="http://www.hiil.org/">HIIL</a> and <a href="http://www.microjusticeinitiative.org/">Microjustice Workplace</a>) has published a new methodology on measuring access to justice. You can <a href="http://test1.uvt.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Handbook_v1.pdf">download it here</a>. <span id="fullpost"> </span><br /><div><br /></div><div>Essentially, it is one of the budding set of literature on measuring access to justice from the subjective perspective (ie, not using the usual top-down, World Bank-like indicators), and provides a detailed description, with questionnaires, for measuring access by aggregating individual experiences of the justice process. Very interesting to me how the field of 'legal empowerment' and 'access to justice' has grown, thanks in large part to the <a href="http://blog.sanng.com/2005/09/undp-forms-commission-on-legal.html">UN Commission of Legal Empowerment of the Poor</a>. </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-86838481105536503962011-09-01T12:39:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.546-08:00Conference on ICT4D Failures, with World Bank attending!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">After <a href="http://blog.sanng.com/2010/08/failfaire-event-discussion-on-failures.html">last year's Fail Faire that I posted about</a>, where the World Bank, among others, shared lessons learned about what has worked and what not in ICT4D, there is another one this year: <a href="http://wayan.com/community-of-practice/fail-faire-dc-2011.html">Fail Faire DC 2011 - a celebration of failure</a> on 13th October.<br /><div><div><br /></div><div><a name='more'></a></div><div><br />From <a href="http://wayan.com/">Wayan Dot Com</a>:<br /><br /><a href="http://failfairedc.com/"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/fea77eb31e686c17afa3a3c9e/images/image_13143858537891314385854.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Fail Faire DC 2011 is a celebration of failure. We will have great speakers with fun, fast, Ignite-style presentations of their professional failures. Audience participation is not only encouraged, it is mandatory! We are all peers and none of us is perfect. Expect much laughter as we navel-gaze at where we have all gone wrong in ICT and international development.<br /><br />Yet we will LEARN from failure. Failure is no reason to be ashamed, and there is great value in examining our mistakes. So while we encourage irreverence and humor, we will be improving our profession too.<br /><br />We will have light refreshments to lubricate the conversation and there will be an after-party to continue the celebration. However, an <a href="https://failfairedc-2011.eventbrite.com/">RSVP is mandatory for attendance</a> and space is limited, so sign up today!<br /><br /><img src="https://evbdn.eventbrite.com/s3-s3/eventlogos/1506342/failfairesponsors.jpg" /><br /><br />Fail Faire DC 2011 will happen onOctober 13th at the World Bank.Those that RSVP will be sent the specific room location just before the event.<br /><br />Fail Faire DC 2011 is brought to you by the<a href="http://worldbank.org/">World Bank</a>, <a href="http://www.developmentgateway.org/">Development Gateway</a>, and <a href="http://inveneo.org/">Inveneo</a>.<br /><br />Agenda:<br /><br />6:00pm: Welcome and drinks<br />6:30pm: #FAIL-Slam<br />7:30pm: Open Discussion<br />8:00pm: Mingling, learning, networking, more drinks<br /><br /><br />Featured Speakers (so far)<br />Dr. Tessie San Martin, CEO, Plan International USA<br />The World Bank on their <a href="http://www.ictworks.org/news/2011/08/17/great-success-world-bank-has-70-failure-rate-ict4d-projects-increase-universal-acces">70% ICT4D failure rate</a><br />Ian Schuler, Internet Freedom Programs, U.S. Department of State<br />You? <a href="http://failfairedc.com/present/">Apply today</a>!<br /><br />Remember, you <a href="https://failfairedc-2011.eventbrite.com/">must RSVP to attend</a>.<br /><span id="fullpost"> </span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-24209102580054329012011-08-30T17:01:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.569-08:00Frontline SMS Legal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I have been familiar with <a href="http://www.frontlinesms.com/">FrontlineSMS</a> since my days at The Asia Foundation, and in fact have thought about using that technology on many occasions for our projects. I love the idea, but it was still in the rather early stages of deployment then. I recently talked to Sean McDonald today about <a href="http://legal.frontlinesms.com/">FrontlineSMS Legal</a>, which builds on the original core Frontline to expand functionality for people in the legal world, in particular, as a SMS-based case management system of sorts. Legal is still in the early stages of development, but I can't wait till I can see a beta version to help test it, using the Microjustice field offices. <span id="fullpost"> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-26764476018329390322011-08-28T22:13:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.587-08:00New Paper on 'What is Law and Development'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span id="fullpost"> </span><br />A good recent summary on the intersection of law and development. A parallel discussion to my previous post: '<a href="http://blog.sanng.com/2010/03/paradigms-and-theories-of-law-and.html">Theories of Law and Development</a>'<br /><br /><a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1907298">What is Law and Development? </a> Mariana Prado (Toronto Faculty of Law)<br /><br /><b>ABSTRACT: </b>Law & Development studies have been growing in the past few years, after having its death declared in the 1070s. There is, however, very little clarity as to what this field of study encompasses or whether it is a field at all. Under the label of Law & Development one can find a wide variety of studies, approaches, analyses and topics. Some studies focus on formal institutions, discussing how enforcement of contracts, protection of property rights, and an independent judiciary protect investors and improve economic growth in developing countries. Others have not focused on economic development, but instead on how laws to protect women from abuses in the family and to create quotas to guarantee their participation in the public sphere have been largely ineffective due to deeply embedded social norms and value that cannot be changed by legislation (at least not from one day to the next). Still others have criticized the Law & Development discourse as another source of imperialism and dominance that justify senseless legal transplants from the North to the South. <br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br />What brings all these studies together under one label? What is it that one should know, if one is looking for a concise summary of what this field of study encompasses? These are the questions that I will try to answer in this essay. The read should be forewarned that the title may be slightly misleading, as the paper will not provide comprehensive and conclusive answers to the question “What is Law & Development?” but hopefully it will offer a starting point for a deeper inquiry. Most importantly, I hope readers will take this as an invitation to explore this field in greater depth. </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-78205270590461433952011-08-08T15:37:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.607-08:00American Bar Association eLawyering Website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="text-align: left;">It's more than just a web presence- read the fundamentals of providing legal services over the internet, as well as innovative best practices (with a US-slant of course): </span></div></div><span id="fullpost"></span><br /><div><br /></div><a href="http://apps.americanbar.org/dch/committee.cfm?com=EP024500">From the American Bar Association eLawyering website:</a><br /><br />"How can I practice law over the Internet?" This web site will help you find answers to that question.<br /><br />eLawyering is doing legal work - not just marketing - over the Web. Pioneering practitioners have found dramatic new ways to communicate and collaborate with clients and other lawyers, produce documents, settle disputes, interact with courts, and manage legal knowledge. ELawyering encompasses all the ways in which lawyers can do their work using the Web and associated technologies. Think of lawyering as a "verb" - interview, investigate, counsel, draft, advocate, analyze, negotiate, manage, .. - and there are corresponding Internet-based tools and technologies. <br /><br />There are exciting initiatives underway now that deserve attention by all lawyers - present and future. While admittedly just a subset of the vast legal technology world, eLawyering and its lawyer-less analogs present fundamental challenges for our profession. There are great dangers, but also great opportunities for attorneys in the coming decade. To be successful in the coming era, lawyers will need to know how to practice over the Web, manage client relationships in cyberspace, and ethically offer "unbundled" services.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8252173157964500532.post-44461147520112929512011-07-29T23:55:00.000-07:002012-03-09T14:22:45.621-08:00New Report on Customary Justice: Perspectives on Legal Empowerment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div>Leiden University and IDLO has partnered to produce a new report <a href="http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/Full_Report_1600.pdf">Customary Justice: Perspectives on Legal Empowerment</a>. Very timely because customary legal systems have slowly gained importance over the last few years, and has usually been the first and last stop for justice for the poor and vulnerable. </div><div><br /></div><div>Abstract:</div>This edited volume explores the relationship between traditional justice and legal empowerment. It discusses key aspects of traditional justice, including the rise of customary law in justice sector reform, the effectiveness of hybrid justice systems, access to justice through community courts, customary law and land tenure, land rights and nature conservation, and the analysis of policy proposals for justice reforms based on traditional justice. The volume was developed in partnership with the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Development of Leiden University and features articles by some ten leading authors, country specialists and practitioners working in the areas of traditional justice and legal empowerment.<span id="fullpost"> </span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">I hope you will read the rest of this post if it is relevant to you!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0