Achieving Open Justice through Citizen Participation and Transparency

Carlos E. Jiménez-Gómez is a Government-Justice specialist with experience in innovative and strategic projects related IT adoption by public organizations, mainly in Justice field, where he has been working since 1991. Since 2007 he has been working on the functional design and implementation of the several times awarded e-Justice system of the Department of Justice of Catalonia, in Spain. He is a Computer Engineer with a MSc. on Information and Knowledge Society, and Postgraduate degree on Information Systems Management. He also does research in his fields of interest that include e-Justice, Open Judiciary, Interoperability and Smart Government. He collaborates with several Universities, and he belongs to several scientific committees. He is Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology, and Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society. Mila Gascó-Hernández holds a MBA and a Ph. D. in public policy evaluation. She is a senior researcher at the ESADE's Institute of Public Governance and Management, where she is in charge of the e-governance, open government and smart cities areas of research. For seven years, she was a senior analyst at the International Institute on Governance of Catalonia. She has also taught at different universities and has done a lot of consulting work with different types of organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, the Mayor’s Office in Valencia (Venezuela), the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, the City Council and the Provincial Council of Barcelona, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Latin American Centre on Management for Development, the World E-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments, the Inter-American Development Bank, or Google.