Archives: January 2006
Wed Jan 25, 2006
The NPOV Dispute process on Wikipedia
Wikipedia has instituted a very interesting dispute process for posts perceived to be partial or misleading. They call it the NPOV process.
"Articles that have been linked to this page are the subject of an NPOV dispute (NPOV stands for Neutral Point Of View; see below). This means that in the opinion of the person who added this link, the article in question does not conform to NPOV standards. See What links here for a list of articles in NPOV dispute."
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"Often, authors can view their articles as being NPOV, while others disagree. That an article is in an NPOV dispute does not necessarily mean it is biased, only that someone (with the tact and wit to properly link to this page from it) feels that it is."
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"Probably the only grounds on which there could be an NPOV dispute over an article that actually conformed to the NPOV is when one or both of the parties to the dispute did not understand either the NPOV policy, or enough about the subject matter to realize that nothing favoring one POV had actually been said. For example, ideologues, when presented with an article that has exemplary neutrality (as per our policy), will consider the article biased precisely because it does not reflect their own bias enough. Probably, such people simply do not understand the NPOV policy."
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"Everyone can agree that marking an article as having an NPOV dispute is a temporary measure, and should be followed up by actual contributions to the article in order to put it in such a state that people agree that it is neutral."
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Susskind on ODR
Richard Susskind , the IT Advisor to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, and a respected legal futurologist, has given his view of the future for technology development in the law in an article in the Times of the 24th January 2006. See on
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,200-2002906,00.html
Notably he says:-
"The foundations of dispute resolution will be rocked by a combination of electronic disclosure, e-filing in the courts and online dispute resolution. "
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Mon Jan 23, 2006
International ODR Forum in Cairo
CITDR is pleased to be a co-sponsor of the Fourth International Forum on ODR, to be held in Cairo March 22 - 23, 2006. The Forum will be held under the auspices of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and in collaboration with: the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Arab League, and UNCITRAL - additional details at http://www.odr.info/cairo
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Sun Jan 22, 2006
ODR system in hospitals
An electronic dispute resolution system for patients, which allows parties to come to agreement online using electronic templates, is currently being trialled in hospitals in the UK - http://www.e-health-insider.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1647
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Mon Jan 16, 2006
Two writings
Two additions to ODR literature -
Ethan Katsh, ""Online Dispute Resolution: Some Implications for the Emergence of Law in Cyberspace" Lex Electronica, v. 10, no. 3 (2006)
and a companion piece, Katsh, Dispute Resolution Without Borders: Some Implications for the Emergence of Law in Cyberspace(CITDR working paper draft)
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Mon Jan 09, 2006
"Robot Lawyers Solve Problems"
Looks like the e-Dispute project is getting some good coverage out there. Here's a piece on slashdot (with some interesting comments from the peanut gallery):
'Robot Lawyers Solve Problems
Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 09, @01:34AM
from the the-jokes-just-write-themselves dept.
Ben22 writes "The Register is reporting that soon new 'Robot Agents' will handle all of our online disputes. The new system is called e-Dispute and could eventually be used on services such as eBay or even all online stores. Perhaps it will help usher in an age of simplified, safe online shopping. Someday, Congress and the Senate might even use programs such as this to resolve conflicting bills. The possibilities are endless." '
read the comments here.
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Wed Jan 04, 2006
Registration for Center's Online Course!
The University of Massachusetts and the Center once again offer our Online Dispute Resolution distance learning course with Dan Rainey, director of ADR services for the National Mediation Board. From late January 2006 through mid May 2006 Dan will lead us through an exploration of the state of the field in Online Dispute Resolution. Click For registration information: Online Dispute Resolution - Legal Studies 391N please visit .
Questions? Please email Alan Gaitenby
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Tue Jan 03, 2006
Conflict resolution in cyberspace
Conflict resolution in cyberspace
Thanks to support from successive EU-funded projects, Tiga Technologies, an advanced IT consultancy, is creating a spin-off company to commercialise a pioneering electronic arbitration system called e-Dispute...
http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/kommunikation_medien/bericht-53438.html
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