Technology Improving Access to Legal Information in Developing Countries

The Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law has posted Smart ways to deliver the legal information people really need, at the HiiL Insights blog:

This post describes a number of recent technological and process innovations that are increasing access to justice in developing nations.

Among the innovations and resources covered are:

• Joyce Hakmeh‘s work on Legal information building and sharing in the Arab world
• Online legal document assembly services, like LegalZoom
• SMS-based legal information services such as Frontline SMS Legal
• “Microjustice” projects such as Microjustice Kenya

McDonald on Client-Centered Innovation in Access to Justice

Sean Martin McDonald, JD, MA, of FrontlineSMS and FrontlineSMS:Legal has posted The Future of Law is No Field of Dreams, at the Innovating Justice Blog.

He writes:

By including user input in the evolution of legal services, we can overcome the practical barriers to access, reaching billions of new clients and fulfilling the promises of equality made in our constitutions, treaties, and oaths.

For more information, please see the complete post.

Mr. McDonald discusses this topic at greater length in his VoxPopuLII post entitled Law in the Last-Mile: The Potential of Mobile Integration into Legal Services.