Sunday, February 20, 2011

10th International Online Dispute Resolution Conference 2011- Day 1 (Part II)

This is part-II of Day 1 where there were interesting presentations.After Colin rule it was Johnston S.Barkat, Asst. Secretary-General, UN, Ombudsman and Mediation Services who delivered keynote speech.He has 15yrs of experience in mediation and is working for ODR in UN.He started his speech by quoting a small story where his daughter and her friends had made rules of who all will use the fort.Thus with the help of story he made us clear that conflict arises when there is violation of trust and he meant ODR is concerned,"not with adjudication but with resolution".

Indian scenario of ODR
Prathamesh Popat and Naavi Vijayashankar made exclusive presentations about ODR under Indian context with lots of suggestion and also gave solutions to the existing problems.They pointed out the advantages of ODR over normal court procedure and threw some light on enforcement issues and its implementation.As a suggestion for authenticity of Identity in online, Mr.Naavi enumerated the significance of digital signatures. Digital Signatures help in sending and receiving e-documents and such e-documents are  now valid in Indian court of law submitted through Digital Signature Certificate which is provided under Information Technology Act,2000.To understand the concept of Digital signature go here.

Online Dialogue
It was about online dialogue presented by Beth Fascitelli, Head of consulting, Meta-Culture who emphasised that there should be a focused and productive conversation to resolve conflicts.This doesn't mean to be a  debate but a unique way to resolve disputes and conflicts.She also insisted that students must hone their communication skills and engage in meaningful conversation.Also pointed out the technological barrier,accessibility barrier and political challenges for an effective dialogue.Thus in her concluding remarks she stressed upon communication skills and thinking skills for an effective online dialogue apart from language barriers that persists.

Thereafter , a sketch about ODR in Italy was  presented by Irene Sigismondi.Followed by her it was Pablo Cortez from UK who gave some guidelines for growth of fair and effective ODR systems.Then it was Orna Rabinovich who dealt with ODR and the blurring of traditional boundaries.

Thus this is end of part II and by part III ,I would be completing the events that happened on Day 1 in the conference.

1 comment:

murugavel rangasamy said...

good, you have noted all the three days conference, deliberations, discussions and presentations by various people from their field of interest and started writing about the same shows your interest observation calibre. keepit up and continue one fine morning you will become a good writer.