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Friday, September 29, 2006

Cyberweek Finale!

  • 16.00 - 18.00 GMT/UTC eNegotiation Simulation at Smartsettle.com, with Ernest Thiessen, founder and president. To sign up: go to the Smartsettle Download Site and install the Smartsettle client and report your success using This Form with the word "CYBERWEEK" in the subject header.

  • Learn about CivicEvolution: online tools and resources to help groups achieve their goals through deliberation and collaboration. CivicEvolution intends to provide a non-partisan, free public service that groups and communities can use to address civic problems. These tools allow participants to engage in a structured process of activities with clear objectives and actionable outcomes. This process creates a promising collaborative atmosphere that encourages respect, authentic participation, understanding, and teamwork. CivicEvolution is in beta release and is looking for pilot projects and partners.  For more information and an informative 5 minute demo visit www.civicevolution.org.

  • New ODR Library Index! The editors (Melissa H. Conley Tyler       
    m.conleytyler@unimelb.edu.au
    and Elizabeth J. Gasson
    Lizcomms@yahoo.com) are pleased to provide an updated index of articles, publications and active links to publications relating to online dispute resolution to assist those investigating or researching ODR. Please contact the editors if you would like to make a submission.

  • We Need Your Feedback - Please Try our Experimental Brainstomring Tool (STORM) and join Dan Rainey, Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services, National Mediation Board, in our Discussion forum to give us your thoughts. Please access STORM (http://ncodr.cs.umass.edu), give yourself a login name, and add posts at will.

  • Wikipedia ODR Invitation: The Center believes that there is room for improvement on the current Wikipedia entry for Online Dispute Resoltion. It is sort of anithetical to the way Wikipedia operates for a group to discuss a particular topic but that may be a way of creating some energy to improve and enlarge the entry. If you are interested in participating in this, please contact The Center.

  • The World of ODR! Please join us in creating a global map of ODR - go to http://www.frappr.com/theworldofodr and add yourself.

  • Three New ODR UN Forums Scheduled! There have been four ODR UN Forums during the past four years, the last being in Cairo in March, 2006. The Center is very pleased to announce three additional forums. We urge you to attend and to contact the organizer if you wish to be involved in planning.

 

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Try out Something New!

  • Help Us Brainstorm! Learn Something About an Online Mediation Tool - Dan Rainey, Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services, National Mediation Board will oversee an online brainstorming exercise using STORM, the prototype University of Massachusetts - National Mediation Board ODR tool. We want you to help us answer the following using STORM: HOW WOULD SOFTWARE SUCH AS STORM BE USEFUL IN YOUR MEDIATION/FACILITATION/THIRD PARTY PRACTICE?, and WHAT ARE SOME PROBLEMS THAT USING SOFTWARE LIKE STORM MAY PRESENT TO THE THIRD PARTY AND/OR THE DISPUTING PARTIES? Please access STORM (http://ncodr.cs.umass.edu), give yourself a login name, and respond at will. We will close the brainstorm on Friday 9/28, a corresponding Cyberweek Discussion to faciliatate feedback will be available.

  • 20.00 GMT/UTC Skype, Telephone, and Internet Synchronous Teleconference: Mediation Excellence in Cyberspace will focus on how to learn and work together on an ongoing basis. The two perspectives will be: (1) supporting Mediation Excellence in online dispute resolution; and (2) using the internet for education, mentoring, networking and cooperation between mediators and mediation organizations in the quest for Mediation Excellence generally.
  • Friday, 9/29 at 16.00 - 18.00 GMT/UTC eNegotiation Simulation at Smartsettle.com, with Ernest Thiessen, founder and president. To sign up: go to the Smartsettle Download Site and install the Smartsettle client and report your success using This Form with the word "CYBERWEEK" in the subject header.
  • Three New ODR UN Forums Scheduled! There have been four ODR UN Forums during the past four years, the last being in Cairo in March, 2006. The Center is very pleased to announce three additional forums. We urge you to attend and to contact the organizer if you wish to be involved in planning.
  • Podcast4 : Colin interviews Arno Lodder, head of the IT Law Section of the Computer/Law Institute of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, director of the Center for Electronic Dispute Resolution (CEDIRE.org)

 

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Today at Cyberweek!

  • 2 Day Brainstorming Exercise Begins! - Dan Rainey, Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services, National Mediation Board will oversee an online brainstorming exercise using STORM, the prototype University of Massachusetts - National Mediation Board ODR brainstorming tool. We want you to help us answer the following using STORM: HOW WOULD SOFTWARE SUCH AS STORM BE USEFUL IN YOUR MEDIATION/FACILITATION/THIRD PARTY PRACTICE?, and WHAT ARE SOME PROBLEMS THAT USING SOFTWARE LIKE STORM MAY PRESENT TO THE THIRD PARTY AND/OR THE DISPUTING PARTIES? Please access STORM (http://ncodr.cs.umass.edu), give yourself a login name and respond at will. We will open the brainstorm Wednesday 9/27 and close it early on Friday 9/28, a corresponding Cyberweek Discussion to faciliatate feedback will be available.

  • 14.00 GMT/UTC Skypecast: "The Use of Technology in ODR in Post-Conflict Scenarios," with Sanjana Hattotuwa, Content and Strategic Engagement Consultant of Info-Share. Participants log onto Skypecast at the appropriate time and join the conference.
  • 20.00 GMT/UTC Skype, Telephone, and Internet Synchronous Teleconference: Mediation Excellence -- bringing the mediation community together to take mediation to the next level -- a coordinated approach to quality assurance through education, training, mentoring, networking, evaluation, certification and standards. Visit the Program for full description.
  • Podcast3 : Colin Rule interviews Robin Harper, Vice President of SecondLife.com on the evolving social spaces of virtual worlds and dispute resolution therein

 

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Real Time Events Today!

  • Weds. (9/27) 00.30 GMT/UTC (or Tuesday 5.30 pm US Pacific Time): Virtual World Seminar, "Peer Mediation in There.com," with Colin Rule, head of online dispute resolution with eBay.com. After installing the there.com client email Colin at crule@paypal.com to let him know that you would like to participate, be sure to provide your there.com username in the email so Colin can invite you to the class.
  • Tomorrow (9/27) @ 14.00 GMT - Skypecast: "The Use of Technology in ODR in Post-Conflict Scenarios," with Sanjana Hattotuwa, Content and Strategic Engagement Consultant of Info-Share. See Program for details.
  • Cyberweek Discussions are underway! Please join our distinguished panelists and other Cyberweek participants as they converse on: The Future of ODR in Latin America; The Place of ODR in the Contemporary Physical and Virtual Worlds; the Role of Culture in ODR; and Transforming Conflict and Building Peace with ICT.
  • Cyberweek Podcast2 : Colin Rule interviews Dan Rainey, Director of Alternative Dispute Resolution Services, National Mediation Board, and a pioneer in the application of cutting edge information and communication technology in government dispute resolution. Dan's Phylogenetic Tree of ODR supports this interview.

 

Monday, September 25, 2006

Welcome to Cyberweek 2006!

  • Discussions opening Today :

    • A Spanish language ODR forum/ Foro Sobre RED en Español - with Alberto Elisavetsky, CEO- PDVSA División Eventos Virtuales(www.eventosvirtuales.com.ar), ADR Professor Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero.Buenos Aires Argentina;
    • ODR and Virtual Worlds - with Ethan Katsh, Founder and Director of the Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution (www.odr.info), Professor of Legal Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
    • ODR in the Physical World - with Dr. Orna Rabinovich-Einy, assistant professor of law, Haifa Law Faculty; Frank Fowlie, the ombudsman of the  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and Benjamin Davis, Professor of Law, University of Toledo College of Law, International Competition for Online Dispute Resolution founder;
    • Technology, Culture, and ODR - with Mohamed S. Abdel Wahab, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Cairo University, Egypt;
    • Use of Technology and ODR in Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding - with Sanjana Hattotuwa, Content and Strategic Engagement Consultant, founding member of Info-share.org
  • Bilingual Exploration of Argentinian ODR Platform
  • Tomorrow - Tuesday 9/26, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm U.S. Pacific time (or 9/27 @ 0030 GMT/UTC): Virtual World Seminar, "Peer Mediation in There.com," with Colin Rule, head of online dispute resolution with eBay.com
  • Cyberweek Podcast1 : Colin Rule, head of ODR at eBay.com and paypal.com interviews Sanjana Hattotuwa, Content and Strategic Engagement Consultant of Info-Share, and a leading voice in the application of information and communication technology to civil / political conflict transformation and disaster mitigation

 


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