Resolucion Electronica de Disputas

The 12th ODR Cyberweek online conference will be held from October 26 - 30, 2009. This is a free all-online set of discussions, simulations, demonstrations and other activities related to online dispute resolution.

Registration for Cyberweek is now open at http://cyberweek.umasslegal.org The preliminary program of activities for Cybeweek can be viewed at http://cyberweek.umasslegal.org/program/ Among the special activities planned for this year’s Cyberweek are the following:

• An exercise for students concerning ethics and ODR that will be coordinated with the Committee on Ethics of the American Bar Association Section on Dispute Resolution
• A demonstraiton of the eBay Community Court
• Simulaitons involving Juripax.com and TheMediationRoom.com
• A SmartSettle eNegotiaiton Competition for Law Schools
• Demonstrations of DebateGraph and Google Wave
• A conversation with Miriam Nisbet, the new Director of the U.S. Office of Government Information Services and the use of ODR in Freedom of Information Act disputes
• A spanish language panel discussion of ODR in Latin America and planning for the June, 2010 International ODR Forum in Buenos Aires
• A webcast of a presentation by Beth Noveck, Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Open Government in the United States, at the National Center for Digital Government at the University of Massachusetts
• Discussions of ODR standards, ODR and veteran’s affairs and ODR and foreclosure mediation
• and a lot more

We hope you will participate. Please feel free to email Alan Gaitenby with any quesitons.