Comparative study of the Judiciary Electronic in Latin America, 2013

Abstract

In this paper, we present the index of the E-Justice in 2013 for 8 countries in Ibero America. The Electronic Judiciary index aims to measure the degree of incorporation of Information Technology and Communication (ICT) in the judicial branch. The same is the result of a survey conducted between April and August 2013 to informants, many of them members of universities that belong to the Red LEFIS (Legal Framework for the Information Society). Significant results of this research are:

1) While the dimensions of information and management of the index are the most developed, the dimensions of relationship and decision of the same index are much less developed in the whole of the 8 Ibero American countries studied.

2) More than 50% of the Electronic Judiciary index developed, we find seven countries, with means more than half of the total countries in the region. Of wich and in descending order, there is Brazil, Spain, Costa Rica, Portugal, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba.