Comments on: Free doorstops for everyone! http://www.sosaidthe.org/2007/06/07/free-doorstops-for-everyone/ How Government Organizations Communicate and Integrate Social Media Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:02:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Chamika http://www.sosaidthe.org/2007/06/07/free-doorstops-for-everyone/#comment-205 Chamika Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:27:26 +0000 http://www.sosaidthe.org/2007/06/07/free-doorstops-for-everyone/#comment-205 I used to work at CanLII.org, a website dedicated to free access of legal sources and judicial decisions in Canada. The Legal Information Institute idea is a movement towards open and free access of the law to maintain institutional transparency. Partners included Australia (AustLII.org, the first website of this type), Hong Kong and AsianLII among others. CanLII was funded by the Canadian Bar Associations. CanLII.org is a great resource, the team advocated and used Open Source Software and believed in capacity-building around the globe to bridge the digital divide. It's too bad the Canadian federal government doesn't engage external stakeholders to come up with different avenues towards transparency. I used to work at CanLII.org, a website dedicated to free access of legal sources and judicial decisions in Canada. The Legal Information Institute idea is a movement towards open and free access of the law to maintain institutional transparency. Partners included Australia (AustLII.org, the first website of this type), Hong Kong and AsianLII among others. CanLII was funded by the Canadian Bar Associations.

CanLII.org is a great resource, the team advocated and used Open Source Software and believed in capacity-building around the globe to bridge the digital divide. It’s too bad the Canadian federal government doesn’t engage external stakeholders to come up with different avenues towards transparency.

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