ODR Cyberweek 2008

• TheMediationRoom Role Play Opportunity: The Mediation Room.com (http://www.TheMediationRoom.com) has set up a role play for Cyberweek. Visitors can log in as various characters and advance the mediation in a workplace injury claim.

• New Discussion To Debrief the Juripax Role-Playing - Please tell us what you thought of the experience.

• A teleconference seminar program on the topic "Beyond same place, same time" which is for ADR practitioners generally and including those who are just getting their feet wet with online dispute resolution.  The one-hour program will be held Friday, October 17, at 4 pm Eastern/1 pm Pacific.
  Join seminar presenters Colin Rule, Graham Ross, Robert Ambrogi, Sam Edwards, Gini Nelson, John DeBruyn, and others who are into technology and dispute resolution for a range of views concerning how to adapt an ADR practice to involving resolving disputes online. The seminar presenters have posted a document on the web using Google Docs to share during their discussions - once you are signed up we will send you the URL.
  • If you want to participate you MUST SIGN UP (Email the Center w/ Subject Line Friday Cyberweek Seminar) - we have a limited capacity.
  • We will send you details via email
  • If you miss the seminar we will post the content online later today.

• If you aren't playing in the Smartsettle One competition, it's not too late and it won't take long (est. 1.5 asynchronous hours). The competition deadline has been extended to midnight GMT on Monday. We designed this event for the Law Schools but everyone at Cyberweek is welcome to join. Have you been wondering how >Smartsettle One achieved such a remarkable settlement rate at ODR 2008? Watch two short videos to see how this eNegotiation system:
  • delivers the benefits of blind bidding without blind bids,
  • is designed with interactive graphics for early intervention, and
  • rewards the party that moves most quickly to the Zone of Agreement.

• Special Podcasts for Cyberweek:
  • How can Technology and the Rule of Law Improve Lives: Jeff Aresty, President of InternetBar, moderates this conversation focused on how technology and the rule of law can help reduce human suffering. Participants were: Thomas Stadnik of Lexis/Nexis and the Lexis/Nexis Rule of Law Resource Center; James Silkenat of Arent, Fox and Chariman of the American Bar Association World Justice Project; Ethan Katsh of NCTDR; and Colin Rule of eBay.
  • About a decade ago, Robert Bordone, Thaddeus R. Beal Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Harvard Negotiaion and Mediation Clinical Program, wrote a piece for the Narvard Negotiation Law Review entitled "Electronic Online Dispute Resolution: A Systems Approach - Potential, Problems, and a Proposal." In this podcast, Professor Bordone and Colin Rule, Director of ODR at eBay and PayPal, look back at this seminal article and discuss how Bordon'e predictions compare with how ODR has actually developed. They also discuss what lessons from the field of ADR systems design offer helpful suggestions for ODR practitioners and designers

• Cyberweek Participant Organizations and URL's: See fellow Cyberweek attendees websites.

• Visit the Countries of Cyberweek: See where everyone is from

• Ongoing Discussions: Collaborative e-Painting and Peacemaking with Leah Wing, Faculty of legal Studies and Director of Dispute Resolution at NCTDR, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Generating Robust Software Systems of ODR with Dan Rainey, Director of Mediation, National Mediation Board. Electronic Medical Records and ODR

• Time Conversion For Real Time Events? Click HERE.

• What is the eBay Community Court? eBay Community Court is a court comprised soley of eBay members. eBay members serve as Jury members to decide if an appealed negative feedback is justified. The Community Court software can be used for various platforms ranging from small claims courts, arbitration cases, adjudication, ombudsman offices, and other areas where decisions are required.

• QuickTime, Mp4, or Flash Video of Simulated ODR Brainstorm with Storm2, NCTDR's prototype ODR process generator reflecting the recognition that ODR software must be highly robust and flexible. Storm2 was produced by the Laser Lab in the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst to provide National Mediation Board mediators with ODR tools to support labor-management conlict resolution.

• Wednesday's New Discussion: Generating Robust Software Systems of ODR with Dan Rainey, Director of Mediation, National Mediation Board.

• Ongoing Discussion: Collaborative e-Painting and Peacemaking with Leah Wing, Faculty of legal Studies and Director of Dispute Resolution at NCTDR, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

• Cyberweek Wikis: A wiki is online software that allows groups of people to build something together and then to edit each other's work. During Cyberweek, we have two related wikis that we hope you will look at and contribute to:
  1. Online ODR Course Development Wiki and Pedagogy with Sanjana Hattutowa, Head of ICT and Peacebuilding, Info-share.org and NCTDR Fellow.
  2. The InternetBar ODR Training and Certification Project is a wiki in which you can help plan a program for training and certifying ODR practitioners

• We need a few more of you to try Juripax Early Dispute Resolution System. Join other Cyberweek participants in an abbreviated role play supported by Juripax. If you're interested please Email The Center (Subject Line: JURIPAX role play) to sign up.

• Law Students and ODR? Try it Here. Join the Smartsettle eNegotiation Competition for Law Schools.

• Time Conversion For Real Time Events? Click HERE