About the Course

Open Justice

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. This course is designed to help the public entrepreneur – passionate individuals like you.

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.

At-your-own pace

Interviews with leading faculty

Course materials tailored to the government sector

People-centered and data-driven

Course curriculum

1. From Transparency to Open Data and Open Justice

What is open justice, what is the value proposition?

2. Open Justice Technologies and The Mindset of the Public Entrepreneur

Open justice as the pathway to innovating public value

3. Open Justice for Efficiency

Covering data driven projects designed to help courts increase throughput and efficiency

4. Open Justice for Equity

Covering data driven projects designed to improve public policy outcomes

5. Open Justice for Legitimacy

Covering projects designed to improve the selection and oversight of judges and other officials

6. Open Justice against Corruption

Covering judicial transparency projects designed to reduce corruption

7. Open Justice Collaborations

Covering participation, engagement and inter-agency collaboration projects

8. Open Justice Projects: Problem Definition

Here we focus on advancing your own open justice project by helping you to define the problem you are solving specifically and concretely.

9. Open Justice Project: Risks

In this module, we address the risks with open justice projects and how to overcome them.

10. Open Justice Projects: Implementation

Finally, we discuss strategies for taking your open justice project from idea to implementation.

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