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Open Access to Legal Information: Mapping the Digital Legal Information of Mexico, Central America, the Spanish Speaking Caribbean and Haiti†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Marisol Florén Romero
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In 2004, the Special Summit of the Americas meeting that took place in Monterrey, Mexico recommended the enactment of a law on the right to access public information in the Americas. The Summits of the Americas is the meeting of the heads of state of the Western Hemisphere. The purpose of these meetings is to discuss the major challenges faced in the region and commit to joint actions at the national and regional level addressing these problems and establishing common policies.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , Winter 2012 , pp. 417 - 515
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Copyright © 2012 by the International Association of Law Libraries. 

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References

1 Summits of the Americas, Follow up and Implementation: Mandates, 64 (Declaration of Nuevo León, 2004), http://www.summit-americas.org/sisca/justice_trans.html; Laura Neuman, Access to Information Laws: Pieces of a Puzzle 1, http://www.cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/peace/americas/ati_pieces_of_puzzle.pdf Google Scholar

2 Summits of the Americas, Background and Previous Summits, http://www.summit-americas.org-/previous_summits.html Google Scholar

3 Special Summit of the Americas: Monterrey, Mexico, January 12 - 13, 2004, http://www.summit-americas.org/sp_summit.html Google Scholar

4 Declaration of Nuevo Leon (2004), http://www.summit-americas.org/sp_summit/sp_summit_-dec_en.pdf Google Scholar

5 Ley de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública, Expediente No. 16.198, (2009), Asamblea Legislativa de la República de Costa Rica, 4a. Legislatura (2009) http://www.asamblea.go.cr/Centro_de_-infomiacion/iblioteca/Centro_Dudas/Lists/Formule%20su%20pregunta/Attachments/349/16198-DICTAMEN%20NEGATIVO%20UN%C3%81NIME.pdf; See also Jorge Córdoba Ortega, La Legislación Costarricense y el Derecho de Acceso a la Información Pública: un Estudio Actual (2004), available at http://www.iij.ucr.ac.cr/articulos-libros Google Scholar

6 Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis, Un Tentative d'E-Gouvernement en Haïti, 2008-2009, presentation at the XLII Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries (ACURIL), Petionville, Haiti, 4-8 June, 2012, (on file with the author).Google Scholar

7 After initial gathering of the data on the website of the Tribunal Supremo Popular of Cuba, the website vanished, and the information could not be re-verified.Google Scholar

8 Marco Velicogna & Gar Yein NG, Legitimacy and Internet in the Judiciary: A Lesson from the Italian Courts Websites Experience, 14 INT. J. LAW. INFO. TECH., 370, 375 (2006), discussing access to information through the webpages of the judiciaries and courts states the importance of webpage architecture and design and repercussion on legitimacy; the study compares Italian, Dutch and New York State court websites. See also, Marco Velicogna, Electronic Access to Justice: From Theory to Practice and Back, 61, Droit et Cultures, at 41 (2011), available at, http://droitcultures.revues.org/2447 states that “well designed court websites may improve access to justice, bad ones risk to worsen it, resulting in users frustration and in the reduction of court system legitimacy.”Google Scholar