ODR Cyberweek 2008

Program

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Software Simulations and Demonstrations:

• 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.

• Juripax Early Dispute Resolution System Demonstration: Watch NCTDR Fellows and Friends in a Juripax supported role play - or try it out for yourself (See Below). Demonstraion role play communications will be posted for all to observe during the first few days of Cyberweek (Posting Details TBA). A Discussion Forum topic will be opened after the role play to debrief and exchange ideas.

• Try Juripax Yourself! Join other Cyberweek members in an abbreviated online Role Plays supported by Juripax: If you're interested please Email The Center (Subject Line: JURIPAX role play) to sign up - you will be provided instructions and case information. After your role play please join us in the Discussion Forum.

• Smartsettle eNegotiation Competition for Law Schools: Cyberweek participants, and others, are invited to participate in an eNegotiation competition using Smartsettle One. Sign up now for this unique and quick experience (est. 1.5 asynchronous hours)

• Cybersettle Automated Dispute Resolution System: Cyberweek participants are invited to explore Blind-Bidding negotiaion technology.

• Visit the eBay Community Court: What is the 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 mediators with ODR tools to support labor management conlict resolution. Explore Storm2 and join Dan Rainey and Alan Gaitenby in the Discussion Forum to pursue these subjects.

Plenary Discussions:

• Monday: ODR and Ombuds Offices with Frank Fowlie, ICANN Ombudsman and NCTDRFellow.

• Tuesday: ODR and Arbitration with Mohamed Wahab of the Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and NCTDR Fellow.

• Wednesday: Software Meets Practice: Innovative ODR
  • Collaborative e- Painting and Peacemaking with Leah Wing, Faculty of Legal Studies and Director of Dispute Resolution for NCTDR at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
  • Generating Robust Software Systems of ODR with Dan Rainey, Director of Mediation, National Mediation Board and Alan Gaitenby, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution

• Thursday: Online ODR Course Development Wiki and Pedagogy with Sanjana Hattutowa, Head of ICT and Peacebuilding, Info-share.org and NCTDR Fellow.

• Friday: Electronic Medical Records and ODR - Details TBA.

• Other Discussions may be added pursuant to Cyberweek participant needs and desires - We will update you accordingly.

Events:

• Conferencia En Vivo Via Internet Resolucion De Conflictos & Nuevas Tecnologias Novedades 2008! ESPERANDO CYBERWEEK 2008 Octubre 13 a 17. Disertante: Dr. Alberto Elisavetsky. Presentadores: Franco Conforti, Jose Arce, Pablo Cortes Diegues & Alberto Elisavetsky. Evento no arancelado. Proyecto Centro Virtual de ResoluciÛn de Conflictos LatinoamÈrica CVRCLA RED/ODR. Viernes 17 de Octubre de 2008 19.00 - 20.00 UTC (Para convertir su hora loacal a UTC Clic AQUI). Registrarse Dando CLIC. El dÌa anterior (16 de Octubre) recibir· las instrucciones para acceder a la sala virtual de conferencias. Consultas a: elisavetsky@fibertel.com.ar Informacion adicional.
  
  Real-time ODR Spanish Language Seminar - October 17, 19.00 - 20.00 UTC (Convert to your local time HERE): Dr. Alberto Elisavetsky of the Virtual Center of Dispute Resolution Latin America will once again lead us in a discussion of ODR in Latin America (and beyond) with Speakers Franco Conforti, Jose Arce, Pablo Cortes Dieges. Please REGISTER and on October 16 you will be emailed instructions for attending the seminar.

• 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.

• Smartsettle eNegotiaion Compeition: Cyberweek participants, and others, are invited to participate in an eNegotiation competition using Smartsettle One. Sign up now for this unique and quick experience (est. 1.5 asynchronous hours)

• Cyberweek Wiki: Online ODR Course Development Wiki and Pedagogy with Sanjana Hattutowa, Head of ICT and Peacebuilding, Info-share.org and NCTDR Fellow.

• International Conflict Resolution Day on October 16

• Painting from the Same Palette Initiative: NCTDR offers a portal through which those with an interest in conflict resolution and the use of technology can learn from and contribute to the theory and practice of conflict transformation efforts happening across the globe.

• Juripax Role-Play: Try Juripax Yourself! Join other Cyberweek members in an abbreviated online Role Plays supported by Juripax: If you're interested please Email The Center (Subject Line: JURIPAX role play) to sign up - you will be provided instructions and case information. After your role play please join us in the Discussion Forum.

• Internet Bar Organization ODR Training and Certification Project and IBO Cyberweek Portal.

• Podcast - InternetBar Organization: "The Resolutionary Method of Conflict Resolution, Applicable Globally Through the Five Step Approach to Managing Cross Cultural Concerns in Global Settings," with Stuart Levine and Jane Smith. Access number: 641-715-3436, access code: 195405#

• 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

Downloads:

• Papers from the 2008 International Forum on ODR - Victoria, BC - Canada
• Papers from the 2007 International Forum on ODR - Liverpool, Great Britain. URL TBA.
• Images from NCTDR Painting From the Same Palette initiative.
• Call for papers: Disputes, Technology and Law: Expanding the Boundaries of Online Dispute Resolution - The 2009 International Forum on Online Dispute Resolution Haifa, Israel June 3–4, 2009
• Cyberweek Participant Organizations and URL's: See fellow Cyberweek attendees websites.
• Visit the Countries of Cyberweek: See where everyone is from

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