A report on the roundtable on Accessing Legal Information, at the Access to Knowledge Global Academy Workshop, held 18-19 January 2011 at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa, has been posted by Jake Gardener at the Yale Information Society Project.
According to the report, the panelists were Mariya Badeva-Bright, Tom Bruce — a member of our community — Daniel Poulin, Ivan Mokanov, Isabelle Moncion, and Darrel Pink.
The panelists discussed topics including:
- The Free Access to Law Movement;
- LexUM‘s work with JuriBurkina and JuriNiger;
- The factors influencing the recent increase in access to legal information in West Africa;
- Measures for evaluating the effectiveness of free access to law initiatives;
- the African Legal Information Institute (African LII);
- the sustainability of free access to law initiatives;
- the relationship between access to legal information, and democracy and the rule of law; and
- “the public interest in making legal information easily accessible to everybody.”
For more information, please see the entire report.
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