Analyzing labour trends is critical for industry labour relations policy development at national level and at corporate level.

Introduction

Copyright regimes in many African countries (where mentioned) provide a favourable framework for free access to law initiatives, but access to historical content is often hampered by restrictive copyright conditions. 

In a recent development, CanLII, a member of the global free access to law movement, and the Federation of Law Societies in Canada have made submissions in the case of SOCAN v. Bell et al currently before the Supreme Court of Canada. 

CanLII' reasons: 

The New Zealand government recently approved new principles for managing the data and information it holds.

In what is seen as one of a few pioneering moves by government, the principles state that government data and information should be open, readily available, well managed, reasonably priced and re-usable unless there are necessary reasons for its protection.

More information is available here:

http://bit.ly/qZZ57T

In July 2011 AfricanLII completed the Southern Africa portion of the "Free Access to Law - Is It Here to Stay?" study into the sustainability of free access to law publishers. We produced comprehensive case studies on the Southern African Legal Information Institute and the Malawi Legal Information Institute (to be made available to the pubic shortly).

In a new blog post on Cornell LII's Vox PopuLII blog, Mariya Badeva-Bright discusses some of the lessons learnt for African legal information institutes supported by AfricanLII. 

From 8 - 10 June, 2011, the university of Hong Kong working with Hong Kong LII has hosted the Law via the Internet conference.

Tererai has been attending on behalf of the AfricanLII and today presented our paper: AfricanLII – An Approach to Developing Free Access to Law in Africa.

SwaziLII was also formally accepted as a member of the free access to law movement. Congratulations, Gugu!

AfricanLII were invited to participate in a workshop coordinated by LexUM at the 6th International eLearning conference in Dar es Salaam.

The eLearning conference is the largest ICT conference in Africa with 1702 participants this year from over 90 countries from Africa and beyond.