Judiciary Hosts MySociety.org Team
The team from mySociety(middle) with Hon. Justice Bart Katureebe (CJ) - L and HW Dan Bwambale - R
KAMPALA: A team from mysociety.org paid a courtesy call on the Chief Justice, Hon. Justice Bart M. Katureebe, at his Judiciary Headquarters chambers in Kampala.
mySociety is a not-for-profit social enterprise, based in the UK that aims at building and sharing digital technologies that help people be active citizens, across the three areas of Democracy, Transparency and Community.
The team is in the country to appraise Uganda Legal Information Institute (www.ulii.org)as part of a broader look at the operation of the African Legal Information Institutes (AfricanLII/laws. Africa).
The Chief Justice informed them of support in making ULII an independent and sustainable legal information portal as a digital archivist and legal database for the Ugandan Judiciary.
The team headed by the Director for Research at mySociety, Dr. Rebecca Rumbul, are scheduled to meet with a wide range of stakeholders.
The team later met with Hon. Justice Fredrick Egonda-Ntende, one of the founders of both ULII and AfticanLII and also a member of the ICT/Law Reporting Committee.
Hon. Justice Egonda-Ntende said without ULII, the void in legal circles would be so wide.
He further reiterated the concern for ULII to have autonomy to be able to develop relationships that would help the LII be able to render the best service.
The team were taken to Makerere University Law School as well as the Law Development Centre to interview faculty and students as end users of ULII.
The team had a video conference with Hon. Justice Geoffrey Kiryabwire, the Chairperson of the ICT/Law Reporting Committee as well.
Posted 14th, February 2019
