Competition: Open Data for Justice Challange by Agami 

Duration: 14 Days (8th to 22nd November)

Participation: Team of 2

Submission Categories: 

• A new and useful data set
• An analytical research paper that sheds light on the interconnections between the data
• Data visualisations
• A demo of a tech product (eg. – app or website)

Submission Datasets: 

• Dataset that captures the background of High Court Judges across 47 parameters 
• Dataset that captures the background of Supreme Court Judges, which assesses the information disclosure practice of Indian SC Judges 
• The India Justice Report datasets and report that rank states on parameters of status of Police, Judiciary, Prisons & Legal Aid in the India Justice Report.

Jury: 

• Adv. Namit Saxena, AOR at Supreme Court of India 
• Niyati Singh, Lead Researcher, Tata Trusts, India Justice Report
• Prof. Rangin Tripathy, NLUO (Author of the Supreme Court Judges’ dataset and paper, and under whose mentorship the dataset on the Background of High Court Judges was created)

Timeline: 

• Application Form deadline – 28th October 2021
• Notification of selection to selected teams – 2nd November 2021
• Challenge starts – 8th November 2021 
• Hangout with the Authors – 9th November 2021 
• Last date of Submission – 22nd November 2021, 11:59 pm. 
• Announcement of winners – Between 30th November – 7th December 2021

Prizes: 

• The top 3 teams will receive cash prizes of Rs. 15,000 (first position), Rs. 10,000 (second position), Rs. 5000 (third position). 
• The top 3 teams will get the opportunity to intern with one of the Jury members.
• All datasets selected by the Jury will be published on Justice Hub, along with other publication opportunities for your products. 
• Further opportunities within the Agami Network to solve some of the big problems of law and justice! 

Application Link: Click here