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Open Justice in Latin America: Judiciary Websites Under Scrutiny

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Rodrigo Sandoval Almazán,

David Valle-CruzAuthors Info & Claims

ICEGOV '15-16: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance

Pages 287 - 290

https://doi.org/10.1145/2910019.2910088

Published: 01 March 2016 Publication History

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Information technology has reached the judiciary branch, we knowvery little about the impact, challenges and pitfalls of this new adoption. The purpose of this paper is to explore this impact on a different government branch: the judiciary. And focus on the open justice new field of research using some metrics approach at the website portals in the Latin America region. An assessment mode we tested on this region, which has been developed by Sandoval & Gil-García [14] has been used to assess a sample of 25 countries during the month of July, 2015. Findings reveal a great disparity among the different countries in the region and their initial stage of becoming part of the open justice trend.

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Arias MMaçada A(2020)Judiciaries’ modernisation through electronic lawsuits: Employees’ perceptions from the Brazil and Argentina federal justice servicesInformation Development10.1177/026666692091048937:2(258-273)Online publication date: 26-Mar-2020
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Seufitelli DMata WSouza RBrandão MMoro Mde Salles Soares Neto C(2020)Characterization and Analysis of Open Brazilian Judiciary DataProceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web10.1145/3428658.3430979(317-324)Online publication date: 30-Nov-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3428658.3430979
Chatfield AReddick C(2018)Collaborative Network Governance Framework for Aligning Open Justice and e-Justice Ecosystems for Greater Public ValueSocial Science Computer Review10.1177/0894439318771968(089443931877196)Online publication date: 16-May-2018
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