Best Openness Initiative 2009
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Winner 2009 Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) |
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The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) is a highly utilised, free online resource for Australasian legal information. Developed as a joint facility of the Faculties of Law at the University of New South Wales and the University of Technology in Sydney, AustLII provides free access to millions of separately retrievable documents, supporting over 1,000 simultaneous user searches.
Serving the needs of both the general public and users in the commercial, education and government sectors, www.austlii.edu.au receives over 900,000 hits per day. AustLII is one of the world’s pioneers in the development of free access to law on the Internet with its practices and technologies now adopted as standards in many countries.
AustLII provided the first resource of its kind in Australia and since 2000 has commenced assisting other countries to establish similar free-access services. The international services this organisation has assisted now comprise the largest free access to law facilities in the UK, Ireland, Pacific Islands, Hong Kong, Southern and Eastern Africa and New Zealand.