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This first-of-its-kind course teaches how to use technology, data and innovation to improve our legal system. It showcases innovative open justice projects from around the world and explains how to create your own.
Open justice is a growing movement to use new technologies, including big data, digital platforms, blockchain and more, to improve our legal system by making the workings of our legal institutions easier to understand, scrutinize and, we hope, improve. Thanks to new tools the opportunity to make improvements has never been greater. This course is designed to help the public entrepreneur – passionate individuals like you. Whether you are a lawyer, a judge, a technologist or just a concerned citizen – the course will help you to use new technologies to take action to increase efficiency, improve equity, fight corruption and enhance legitimacy in the third branch of government.
Instead of long lectures, this online course consists of ten short modules which will serve as brief introductions to different aspects of open justice. These ‘mini-lectures’ of ten minutes each are combined with interviews with leading practitioners from around the world who are collecting the data, conducting the analysis, creating the apps, and building the movement that helps us all to better know and assert our rights.
We wish to acknowledge the Commission of the Mexican Federal Electoral Court as the founder of this MOOC.
Each module comprises a short video accompanied by a written primer expanding on the material in the video, including more in-depth case studies. Most of the modules also include video interviews with open justice innovators and demos of successful and pioneering open justice platforms.
Finally, when you have learned what open justice is and how people are putting new technology to work around the world to improve their justice systems, we reserve three modules at the end of the course that will help you launch your own project.
