Resolve Without Litigation (RWL) Has Rejuvenated Its ODR Discussion Forum

We first discussed about online dispute resolution (ODR) in 2004 and ironically it was an international platform where we shared our views. That is because in 2004 ODR was not known in India except among a very limited number of people.

We waited up to 2010 and the position remained same. That is the year when PTLB launched a Blog titled Techno Legal Online Dispute Resolution Services outlining our unique and exclusive techno legal ODR services. We managed this service through the website of Perry4Law and simultaneously opened the ODR blog to spread awareness about ODR in India.

In 2012 we launched a dedicated website on online dispute resolution (ODR) in India and since then we have launched many ODR projects each with different objective and purpose. We also launched India’s exclusive ODR discussion forum in 2012 and we have been continuously updating it from time to time. In the latest initiative, we have completely rejuvenated the ODR discussion forum.

However, the moment it was updated and rejuvenated we were flooded with spam accounts. First we disabled self registration process for our forum and made the registration subject to administrator’s approval. But the spam accounts kept on increasing and even if they were subject to our approval they kept on clogging our resources. After much deliberation, we completely disabled registration process and now registration at our forum is based on “invitation” or “request” basis.

We understand that this would make the forum unavailable to general public but we are preparing for the larger event that would make India a hub for institutionalised arbitration and institutionalised ODR destination. We apologise for this inconvenience but we welcome national and international stakeholders working in the field of ODR to register at our forum. They can contact us at this blog or at Twitter handles of @_PTLB, @RWLIndia, @DigitalIndiaLaw, etc.

If you are an ODR expert empanelled at the portal of RWL, you can request for your account registration at ODR forum of RWL while submitting your empanelment application.

To know what type of discussion we would have on the ODR forum, please see the Guide that we have created for our users that they can use to get justice within 2-5 minutes of their time.

As we have a target of making India a hub for international commercial arbitration, institutionalised arbitration, ADR and ODR training, institutionalised ODR leader, etc, we intend to work very seriously and very hard on the forum and other portals. If you are following our tweets at Twitter, you can get all the information that can be really beneficial for you and your organisation.

With this article we are now working to fill the ODR forum with information that would be unique and of tremendous value to national and international stakeholders.

Thanks for your patience and time.

Source: RWL India Blog.

Exclusive Techno Legal Institutional ODR Project Of The World By PTLB

Online dispute resolution (ODR) is a comparatively new field though we at Perry4Law Techno Legal Base (PTLB) started working upon the same in 2004. Till 2010 we established ODR research and training centre and launched our own ODR portal. We launched many ODR projects with different perspective and purposes. We started these projects at our main website of Perry4Law. 

In 2012 we launched dedicated websites for ODR and e-courts respectively. We launched Techno Legal Centre of Excellence for Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) in India (TLCEODRI) in 2012. We also launched Resolve Without Litigation (RWL) project in 2015. We launched two dedicated portals for ODR too.

The first one is a pro bono portal that is training national and international stakeholders to use ODR for resolution of their present and future disputes. The second one is a professional ODR portal that is meant for our clients and those who are well versed with the use of ODR. 

However, we found that Indian government is neither technologically savvy nor it has the political will to implement ODR project in India. We at PTLB gave India an advantage in the ODR field but neither Congress nor BJP took interest in the same. On the contrary, we faced discouragement from government and departments like CGPDTM. All efforts of Indian government and its department(s) are to stiffle the growth of ODR in India rather than developing it. Even the National Litigation Policy of India (NLPI) and New Delhi International Arbitration Centre Ordinance, 2019 failed on the front of ODR. 

But other countries recognised the significance of this field and they have started working in this field. We introduced ODR in India in 2005 but till April 2019 neither Congress nor BJP showed any interest. Both wasted 14 years and India is now lagging behind in ODR field despite having 14 years lead. 

We can only hope that the new government that would come to power after May 2019 would be sensible enough to take advantage of our Techno Legal ODR expertise and projects. But we cannot take the risk and so PTLB decided to develpo ODR capabilities and expertise in India on its own. We received many funding proposal and we are presently analysing them. We appreciate these offers and would love to explore one or two of them having minimum strings attached. 

As we have already established fully functional ODR portals for almost a decade, now it is time to make India a hub for Institutional ODR and International ODR destination. That is why we revived this Blog that was started in 2010 and did some changes to it. We have changed the theme of this Blog and if due to that our readers find any mistake or discrepancy, we apologise in advance. 

As both RWL India and TLCEODRI have differnt mandates, we needed a dedicated Social Media account to share our views and announcements with national and international stakeholders. We have launched the ODR Institute Twitter handle for this purpose. The purpose of this handle is to share details about our projects that are working to establish Institutional ODR in India. 

Our existing ODR projects are sufficient to make India a destination for ODR but we have decided to launch a dedicated Institutional ODR portal. Till the same is established, national and international stakeholders can use our existing portals. We would launch the same after July 2019 once we have sufficient funding in this regard from national and international fund providers.