Archives: July 2009
Fri Jul 17, 2009
ADR IN CYBERSPACE: OUT OF THIS WORLD
THE ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION RADIO PROGRAM
LISTEN TO THIS RADIO PROGRAM LIVE, or OVER THE INTERNET
CHIN Radio can be heard worldwide over the internet www.chinradio.com
To listen to this ADR radio program go to the Chin Radio website, click at top right----“LIVE – Ottawa – 97.9 FM; Mon., July 20 and Tues., July 21 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
ADR IN CYBERSPACE: OUT OF THIS WORLD – in celebration of the first moon landing July 20th 1969, 40 years ago!
Guests:
MICHAEL ERDLE: Mediator, Arbitrator, Lawyer at Deeth Williams Wall LLP (Toronto, Ontario, Canada ) (www.dww.com)
COLM BRANNIGAN: Mediator, Arbitrator (Brampton, Ontario, Canada) (www.mediate.ca)
Co-Chairs of the ADR Institute of Ontario's Technology and Intellectual Property Section (IP/IT Section)
(www.adrontario.ca) (see also www.adrcanada.ca)
Host: ERNEST G. TANNIS, Solicitor and Mediator (www.adrcentre.org) Ottawa, Canada
Co-Host: GARY MICHAELS, Station Manager, Chin Radio, Ottawa, Canada (gary@chinradio.com)
The Alternative Dispute Resolution show on CHIN RADIO 97.9 FM (Ottawa) is broadcast weekly every Monday and Tuesday - 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. EDT
(This ADR series was awarded the best national radio program in the "features" category 2007 by the Canadian Ethnic Media Association (CEMA) and (for 2nd. year in a row) in the "opinion" radio category for 2008; (www.canadianethnicmedia.com) .
CHIN Radio Ottawa is a multicultural radio station broadcasting 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week in over 20 different languages to local and
international ethno-cultural groups.
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Reenginering Dispute Resolution
Reenginering Dispute Resolution
Contributor: Arthur Ahalt
SUMMARY: Can online dispute resolution (ODR) successfully re-engineer alternative dispute resolution (ADR)? Recently, an investment advisor was informing clients that the opportunity the recent recession provided was advances in technology. The theory expressed was that companies who had to lay off people because of the economic downturn would not rehire the people they laid off because of the downturn. Instead they would invest in technology to reduce the number of people that it took to deliver goods and services. Terminating jobs is extremely stressful whether for good reasons or bad. It is even more stressful for the professional. The investment advisor theorized that companies would be asking themselves - how can we change our business model so that we no longer need these extra layers of employees?
http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=eaefc76d-7510-47a5-a436-74d5eb251e16
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Wed Jul 15, 2009
ODR in High Rise Condos in Malaysia
From Claro Parlade: A new web service, http://www.highrise.my, enables residents of large high rise buildings to work together to resolve issues. From the website:
"Use HighRise Complaints / Suggestions Management tool to voice out your complaints and suggest ideas about your place of residence. All the complaints and suggestions are tracked in your HighRise website and your residence management can handle them one at a time. Rest assured your voice will be heard by your community and they can join in to share their views on your suggestions or complaints. "
Here's a recent news story on the platform as well.
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Mon Jul 13, 2009
Student Scholarships for upcoming ODR/ADR training
I've just been informed that there may be some scholarships available for students and non-profits to the upcoming Center for Public Policy Dispute Resolution training happening in Austin, Texas at the end of July -- it should be an incredible gathering... here are the classes being taught:
* Creating Value through Negotiation – Melissa Manwaring, J.D., M.Ed.
* The Role of Apology, Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Collaborative Processes – Lee Taft, J.D., M.Div.
* Power and Impasse – Nina Meierding, M.S., J.D.
* Staying with Conflict: Working with Ongoing Disputes – Bernie Mayer, Ph.D.
* The Public Policy Facilitator's Toolbox: Designing Processes for Multi-Stage Initiatives – Bill Potapchuk, M.A., M.S.
* The Next Generation of ADR: Utilizing Technology to Effectively Resolve Disputes – Colin Rule, M.A.
If you're interested, send me an email at rulecol at yahoo.com.
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Smart Tools for Smart Power: Simulations and Serious Games for Peacebuilding
The United States Institute for Peace is hosting a very interesting meeting on Thursday:
"Please join USIP's Center of Innovation for Science, Technology and Peacebuilding for a full-day multimedia showcase of state-of-the-art simulation and “serious gaming” tools that promise to transform the way that peacebuilding organizations train, plan and collaborate. Gain practical insights from a diverse range of innovators, including IBM, EBay, the Army War College, and Lockheed Martin. The event features a keynote address from White House Deputy CTO Beth Noveck. Pre-registration is required. Lunch will be provided.
* If you are not in Washington DC, you may also register to watch the live video stream and participate in online discussion.
Sophisticated new technologies are transforming decision-making for corporations and militaries, but the organizations that seek to mitigate violent conflict have yet to take full advantage of cutting-edge simulations, analytics, serious games and other technology-enabled decision-support and collaboration tools.
This session will provide hands-on demonstrations of cutting-edge, best in class "serious games” and simulation tools, some with current application to conflict management and some to inspire new ideas for the peacebuilding community. You will see how governments, militaries, businesses and NGOs are applying the latest online and scenario-driven simulations and 3D virtual environments to sharpen decision-making skills and lay the foundation for more effective operations, negotiation, and cooperation...." <more>
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Wed Jul 01, 2009
White House online discussion of ODR and ADR this week
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has, for the past month, been sponsoring a large scale online discussion. The purpose of this public dialog is to generate new initiatives about how citizens might interact with government. In the first phase of the dialog, there were various proposals suggested for applications of ODR and ADR. During the last phase, which is occurring this week, ODR and alternative dispute resolution are featured prominently on the OSTP blog at http://blog.ostp.gov/2009/06/29/collaborative-problem-solving-and-alternative-dispute-resolution/ This blog posting will be open for public comment through next Monday, July 6th. If you have something, hopefully positive, to say about expanded ODR use by federal agencies, posting something to that effect would be extremely valuable and I would urge you to do so. The people in charge of the White House Open Government initiative actually are familiar with ODR and any ideas you might have about the value and benefits of ODR in the government context would, I think, have an impact.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone else who you think might be interested.
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NCTDR Associate Chris Peterson's Research Cited in NYT, 6/29/09
In a June 29, 2009 New York Times article that takes a closer look at Facebook's new privacy options, a section is devoted to NCTDR Associate Chris Peterson's draft thesis "Saving Face: The Privacy Architecture of Facebook", that was supervised by NCTDR's Alan Gaitenby and Ethan Katsh. Peterson argues that the idea that anything published ought to be understood as intended for public distribution is an antiquated understanding from the era when publishing was expensive and required a lot of effort. The opposite is true today. Likewise, Peterson argues that the dominant legal framework today "recognizes as private only that which is completely secret."
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