Interested in online dispute resolution (ODR), and its opportunities, challenges, practice and issues?

Then you may be interested in the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution’s 12th annual ODR Cyberweek taking place later this month. Here’s a copy of the announcement from ODR innovator and Center Director Ethan Katsch:

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 demonstration of the eBay Community Court.
• Simulations involving Juripax.com and TheMediationRoom.com.
• A SmartSettle eNegotiation 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.

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