Monday, February 21, 2011

10th International Online Dispute Resolution Conference 2011- Day 2 (Part -I)

The day 2 of the conference kick started with the same pace as of day 1.It was also rightly pointed out by the conference organizer Chittu Nagaraj that today being Day 2 is the most interesting day for this conference.Before starting to report the day's sessions I must thank my friend in deed to help me writing in this space about Day-2 as I was sluggish and lazy enough to concentrate.

The day's session started off with Father of ODR i.e Ethan Kash and Leah Wing  who spoke on "ODR and Government".He focused on the significance of maintaining Health records in electronic format for the benefit of both individual and the society and also mentioned ODR as an alternate to reduce case backlogs.Leah spoke about "supporting social deliberative skills in online".She discussed the overlapping of Technology with ODR and explained in brief about the govt. sponsored interdisciplinary projects in US.

Chintake spoke on "Enforcement of Online Consumer Arbitration Awards:A New Approach".He discussed the need of ODR in today's business world and focused on the working of e-courts and also about consumer arbitration award.Then Dr.Vijayakumar , VC of Tamilnadu Ambedkar Law University spoke about his personal expereinces with regard to challenge faced by ODR and emphasised the need for including ODR as a subject in the Law Schools.

Later,Mr.Tripathi, Inspector General Of Police enumerated the policies enforced in Tamilnadu with the help of online technology.After that Mr.Vasimalai and Anushya of the Dhan Foundation explained elaborately about the existing grass root level problems in the society especially about the micro-finance project which helps the people to stabilise their financial position.She also explained the need for spreading micro-finance project worldwide with the help of online technologies.Then Jin Ho spoke on Micro justice and justice to the poor.He stated that an online platform with legal information package must be made available to the public in the grass root level and also explained the various methods through which micro-justice can be delivered to the people.


After the above presentations it was time for lunch.By this I am completing the part -I and will post the afternoon sessions in part-II.So keep watching for further presentations as to what speakers intended to impart.
















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