{"id":36346,"date":"2017-11-23T14:18:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/use-of-ict-reduced-backlog-in-courts-rugege\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T12:29:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T12:29:55","slug":"use-of-ict-reduced-backlog-in-courts-rugege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/use-of-ict-reduced-backlog-in-courts-rugege\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of ICT reduced backlog in courts-Rugege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rugege was speaking yesterday at the 14th East African Magistrates and Judges Association Conference and Annual General Meeting in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cICT has been more useful in Rwanda\u2019s justice system; it is used while receiving cases, communication between court employees, court fees payment and registries of litigants\u201d he said adding that ICT enabled transparency and reduced corruption.<\/p>\n<p>He said embracing technology reduced in person contacts between litigants and court employees which previously created tendencies to corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s justice system uses \u2018Integrated Electronic Case Management System (IECMS)\u2019, a programme which was introduced in January, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>{{Financial constraints in EAC}}<\/p>\n<p>The president of Kenyan High Court Justice Nzioka Wa Makau said that technology in courts is helpful, but means to afford it is still a challenge.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cIn Kenya, constitution says that courts are independent and should have own resources, but, till today no available resources. We are looking forward for a \u2018fund\u2019 to support courts. So, technology is good but we can\u2019t afford to buy it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22835 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rugege-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rugege speaks in the conference\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22836 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/participants_in_the_meeting-2.jpg\" alt=\"Participants follow proceedings in the event\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Justice, Prof. Sam Rugege has said that the use of ICT in justice services has helped the country reduce backlog cases from 42, 067 in 2011 to 17, 241 in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36346"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36346"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}