Better Legislation for Smoother Implementation

We are under cover. To celebrate the 10^th birthday of JoinUp, our BLSI team decided to pay tribute to this excellent European initiative and circulate our June newsletter under its logo. Learn more about JoinUp and its future revamp from our news below.

Upcoming:

• We will be hosting our next virtual breakfast on 11 June about ethics & digital-ready lawmaking
• We will develop training resources for the Interoperability Academy, hosted on the new EU academy platform

Our highlights since our last newsletter:

• Our April virtual breakfast as part of the DigitAll conference was a success! (See the takeaways below)
• Digital is prominently represented in the latest European Commision (EC) communication on Better regulation: Joining forces to make better laws | European Commission (europa.eu). In particular, we are happy to see that:

1. For all legislative proposals the explanatory memorandum will explain how the initiative contributes to achieving the European way for a digital society and economy.
2. Stakeholder consultations must cover digital aspects and relevant evaluations must contain a specific question about whether more could be done for a successful digital transformation.
3. Evidence registers and portals will be opened and better interconnected to allow more efficient evidence-based policymaking and more transparent public information.

Do not forget, we are also here to deliver on your needs and to co-create with you! If you would like your project or event to figure in our next newsletter or to be promoted in our joinup space, don’t hesitate to contact us!

Cecile, Isa and Zsofia

The legal interoperability team

Join us for our June virtual breakfast on digital-ready lawmaking & ethics!

As part of this breakfast, we would like to explore with you and our guest speakers the ethical implications of new approaches and technologies for digital-ready lawmaking and gather your fresh ideas. The webinar will consist of a panel and interactive discussion on several key questions related to digital-ready lawmaking and ethics.

Check out the event page and register before 9 June!

The 13th edition of the European Open source & free software Law Event (EOLE) 2021 is running since November 2020 with a series of interesting webinars.

The closing session “Legal aspects on free software in public administrations: hands on” will take place on 2 June from 11:30am to 13:00pm CEST and will present the takeaways of the event and discuss perspectives moving forward.

Click here for more information.

Interested to hear about what is happening on the African continent in the sphere of law and technology?

The Africa Legal Innovation Week is a 4-day conference taking place from 5 to 9 July 2021 that aims to bring legal technologists across the African Continent to discuss the role of technology in supporting access to Justice. It brings together like-minded individuals to lead idea-focused conversations and further innovation. Join the discussion!

Click here for more information.

On 21 April, together with the LEOS (Legislation Editing Open Software) team, we co-hosted a workshop on multidisciplinary teams & tools for digital-ready policies as part of the DigitAll conference. Welcoming also the New Zealand Better Rules initiative, this session discussed multidisciplinary teams as key enabler of digital-ready policies and the key challenges and lessons learnt, building on the LEOS and Better Rules stories.

Consult the workshop takeaways and presentations here.

ReMeP 2021 will take place from 5 to 7 September 2021 and is currently looking for submissions for presenting new research in all aspects related to legal informatics in the widest sense of the term.

The event will focus on computational law and legal knowledge graphs and feature many interesting workshop, keynotes and panel discussions.

Click here for more information and do not wait to submit your application!

Are you curious about new and innovative ways to integrate technology in rulemaking? Would you like to learn more about moving from textual to computational law?

The OPSI RaC initiative and the CoHuBiCoL project are two very interesting use cases showing innovative approaches to digital-ready policymaking.

Discover both initiatives here!