The Investment Climate Facility for Africa-ICF today signed an agreement with the Judiciary of the government of Zambia on the computerization of the Zambian courts.
The Agreement is aimed at increasing Judicial efficiency by computerizing and automating all courts procedures.
The first phase of the project which will cost US$600,000 will not only facilitate computerization but also provide training for court staff to ensure they are able to use the new technology.
The Judiciary in Zambia currently record court proceedings manually and by computerizing existing systems, the time spent on each case will be dramatically reduced.
Chief Justice Ernest Sakala said the Project of computerizing the Zambian courts comes at a time when society has raised concerns at the slow pace the Judiciary is disposing off matters in courts.
Chief Justice Sakala said the project has also come at a time when everywhere in the region, courts are being called upon to deliver a service to communities they serve saying the world is at the same time under going immense technological change.
The Chief Justice explained that while upgrading of physical facilities on its own would not guarantee autonomy and independence of the Judiciary, better facilities and work environment often contribute to higher motivation and productivity of the members of the Judiciary.
He pointed out that there was need though for the Judiciary to be efficient, effective and equitable in its duties.
Chief Justice Sakala said it is the aim of the Judiciary that the computerization project with the assistant of the ICF will translate into a cost efficient system for the Judiciary in Zambia.
He revealed that the initial phase is expected to run for the next nine months saying upon success, the Judiciary will embark on the second phase which will cost over US$4 million.
He also revealed that the second phase is also expected to automate all registries, introduce and electronic data base to safe guard all court records and provide standby generators.
Chief Justice Ernest Sakala reiterated the need for the Judiciary to respond to the concerns of the citizens by improving the rate of disposing cases.
Speaking at the same function, ICF Executive Officer, Omari Issa said the changes to the Judiciary are relatively straight forward to implement but that the results are enormous in terms of the improvements to Zambia’s investment climate.
Mr. Issa said a modern Judiciary gives investors assurance that they can enforce contractual obligations fairly and speedily saying it is also an important indicator of a government’s commitment to create a healthy investment climate.
He reiterated ICF’s support to the project in Zambia.
And the Law Association of Zambia-LAZ Honorary Treasurer Overs Banda said LAZ is excited about the project saying LAZ will work with the Judiciary and the Consultant to ensure the success of the project.
ICF is a unique public-private partnership between government and business that aims to help Africa create a more attractive business environment and realize its potential as a global player and trading partner.
ICF works to remove real and perceived obstacles to domestic and foreign investment by assisting Africans to prepare and promote the continent as an investment destination.
ENDS/CBM/AM/ZANIS
feels good to be number 1 and computerised
Efficiency in judicial system must be embedded in the time frames within which courts deliver judgements and adjourn cases.Some adjournments are so ridiculous and makes one wonder the rationale behind this.
You surely do not need a computer to manage a diary. A new culture needs to be incalcated in the whole judicial system – that of speedy delivery of judgements.
Huston we have landed
Computers do not remove corruption, that’s the problem with the courts/prosecution/police in Zambia – CORRUPTION.
Where is that Huston of yours where you have landed? Going by your flaship, the US has no city called Huston. Are talking of where i’m Houston?
‘The Agreement is aimed at increasing Judicial efficiency by computerizing and automating all courts procedures.The first phase of the project which will cost US$600,000 will not only facilitate computerization but also provide training for court staff to ensure they are able to use the new technology.The Judiciary in Zambia currently record court proceedings manually and by computerizing existing systems,the time spent on each case will be dramatically reduced.’
Good and this has been long overdue.I hope President RB Banda’s office is already computerised.If not,lets computerise it quickly. Then all UNDEREDUCATES must be blocked from going to waste time at Plot 1 in form of President.
‘Chief Justice Ernest Sakala said the Project of computerizing the Zambian courts comes at a time when society has raised concerns at the slow pace the Judiciary is disposing off matters in courts.
Chief Justice Sakala said the project has also come at a time when everywhere in the region, courts are being called upon to deliver a service to communities they serve saying the world is at the same time under going immense technological change.’
Consider the slow pace of the PENSIONS Office too and computerise it too if you havent done so already GRZ. There is no need to continue operating in the way we are left to work by our former colonial masters in 1964.
All the best.
thats a good move…its time the MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY stepped up they game!! to improve zambia and the governtment with efficient tehcnology!!! be pro active plz!!!
Thats when the “umulandu taubola” saying will be reality because at the moment the dockets do get rotten and thrown out, thus getting rid of some cases.
hi guys!!
when are they going 2 amend the constitution?
i wanna have duo citizenship!!
#10.Anonymous,the Vice President Minister of Justice George Kunda was quoted as having said that the NCC will conclude its activities in December next year,2009.This deadline entails that Parliament proceedings on the recommendations that will come from NCC to be effected in the hopefully new amended Zambia Republican Constitution will only start in 2010 possibly in March.My personal hope is that the yet to-be NCC recommendations on amending the current Constitution will expeditiously be incorporated with the it as fast as the NEW 15% INCREMENTS of salaries and allowances to the so-called Constitutional office bearers have been passed in Parliament since they are critical for 2011 elections.
When we say computerised you shud high a company to strict do that job example what mines & hotels do.leaving judiciary alone will not work.its longtime gone doing things single handled breeds so many expenses.
Hi someone, hope you ve had a lovely day, i did. Have just come back from a party.
# 13 are u a gal? i guess that someone is me hey!!!!
#13.Pumpy, could you kind of be clear on your “Have just come back from a party”? Otherwise,I had a blissful sabbath day at church the whole. For the first time ever since I came here,today I made it to church in good time.I hope I will even do better next week.
#14. continued.
…. I was even n o m i n a t e d to act in a s k e t c h on J e s u s our C h r i s t’s episode on the bringing the d i s c i p l e s terrifying winds and waves while on boat, initially sleeping, to a stop leading all the way up to the c a s t i n g of d e m o n s on the p i g s from the l e g i o n d e m o n-p o s s e s s e d man.
i wish the dept of national registration could be computerized too so only ‘real’ indigenous zambians can benefit from govt resources
On w w w. lusakatimes.c om/ ? p=5969?Students Partnership World Zambia Country Director John Kalage said Dance for Life initiative aims at bringing HIV and AIDS education to young people through music and dance, inspiring them to take action to push back the epidemic… young people account for almost 45 percent of all new HIV infections with an estimated 5.5million young people living with HIV today.”
These statistics are worrying unless there is a mistake in the reporting.How can we have “5.5million young people ” out of 11-12 million Zambians being infected with HIV?Also,how can “young people account for almost 45 percent of all new HIV infections”?
Zambian young people,let us be careful!
Hopefully young Zambian computer science graduates will be involved in this project. It would make good training ground for them.
Hhehhehhehhe please fumya ubutonga apa .Whats your problem.What’s the need of repeating what is written you make people skip such long postings even if it has sense. Please be as brief as possible.
Clarification my fellow Citizen. Just perform a re-look at the quality of some postings. Most comments are out of topic indicating that their writer may not have read the news or misunderstood it. In my postings, you will certainly notice quantity, but this is quantity of quality.
Have a great day, zest. By the way, I will be going on a long leave from LT starting tomorrow 24 hours (00:00 hrs) sharp. This is because I have to cover a lot of ground that has been neglected in the 2 months before the election and this ending one month aftermath.
So, hold your fire for I will soon be out of your firing range for a long time.
Dont argue- What is conmputerisatino in thie eyes?Does it mean linking court records to finance isues, road traffic isues etc. Please a computer record keeping system that does not link to other relevanet institution is nothing but a Tiya ndi tiyazana.
#22. your flag Tiya ndi Tiyazana, kobatama musa. This is business coming our way. Tuyandika kubamba akuijula company iini kuli backup ya-data yonse njobanikubika ama-computer as archives. Iyesu inikuli protected kuzwa kuma attacks azintu mbuli mulilo. Company eyo iyandika kuyooba backup storage facility ya-data yabunji bwama-companies ama GRZ components oonse. Nkabela swebo tuyandika kuula ima-super computers ama terrabytes a-storage capacity.
Kala mpokkedde kutabandiki maningi nkaamboa inga alakuyasa mamvwa.
Mali aaya aabola mumazuba aali mbwabele kumbele.
#15 Maestro Hhehhehhehhe is a great citizen and contributor actually he digs deeper than most of the journalists.Maestro Hhehhehhehh hachilongwe keep it up.some chaps are attcacking you because they could not be one number slot in terms of posting.
Maestro Hhehhehhehhe, ndabona kuti uli cilombwana mukubandika kwako musa. Zumanana, utatyompwi nokuba hupilukila munsi pe. Swebo tuyanda cisi cijisi lusumpuko mbuli kumusanza wacisi cino, nkaambo kuzwa balombwana bajisi mitwe iibeleka bwini. Zumanana musa, Mwami nkwali alimwi nkocili cikando ncatubambilide kumbele.
ALL GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS SHOULD CONSIDER ISO 9001:2008 OR 2000:THIS IS THE BEST WAY THE SERVICE CAN IMPROVE.CORRUPT IS SO RIFE THOUGH AND THE COMPUTER SYSTEM IS NOT THE SOLUTION.IF IT WAS ZRA WOULD BE DIFFERENT BY NOW.HARD LUCK THOUGH I HOPE THE SERVICE WILL BE BETTER IN THE COURTS
As you computerize the Judiciary please include the log-in and log-out system and see if those few bad eggs can go round it.
We dont want uncessary adjournments, hence we support the iniciative of computarising the Judiciary.Chiluba,s cases have taken too long can you dispose off those cases quickly.Some innocent people have spent a lot of money because of the eneficiency of the Judiciary.E.g innocent beautiful Regina. Chiluba did a number of wrongs,but Regina should not Suffer the Consequences.And you Sakala thats when you have waken up and realised that there is teachnology? Mule bako Serious .This country is so backward.
Maestro do you sleep? Thats why i like saying tha tongas are so sleepy! the guy cant just believe that there is internent and that even him can blog. I guess you are not even married.But even if am not married,i gve chance to the internent.Mwati ni chi Maestro Vina bwela mo chedwa.Especially this article to do with computers, immediately i saw it i knew that Maestro is one of the first 10 people who have commented.
computorising the judiciary system!!!, thats a joke. Dou you think that will help in in keeping records, I don’t think so. stop wasting tax payers money. why havent disposed cases of those foxes rotting chimbokaila and other dirt prisons. injustly has been put in the inocent people.
This computerisation will do the judiciary no good in terms of how quick cases can be disposed off. Quite alright it will be good for record keeping but not efficiency. there’ll be even too much corruption at the judiciary as those entrusted with operating the same computers will be taking bribes to temper with some records and stuff like that. just wait…
This is really good staff, the system is faster and better even western countries are now turning to the same system. the computerised system was introduced early this year in WA so i wonder the people who think this system is not transparent what they think.
#30 DO you honestly and reasonablely think development in infrastucture and improving the current faciliy is wasting tax payers money? WELL I reasonablely don’t think it is wasting taxpayers money at all, because if we have sonud infrastructure and improved facilities then we stand higher chances of attracting more investers of which it is a good thing for Zambia.
Backward judiciary!!! Up to now still using manual filing. I think computers will even slow you more
what took u so long?
#24. Choma1 and 25. American Choolwe, ndalumba basa. I know that some characters harbour colossal jealous because they can not match with the level discipline and commitment that most of us have taken on the development agenda for Zambia.
Whateveer, the case, I will continue to offer rare and expert advice to Zambians and Zambia for there is more to uplifting people’s lives than to sit, relax and hope that things will sort themselves up.
#29. Chewe, check your English spellings on #28. Otherwise, for a Zambian villager YES Vinabwela mochedwa va-chizungu. By the way when did you start using a computer and start blogging, Chewe?
I invite you to join us on w w w. bwanji.c o m for real funny too.
Maestro alandetela ubunang’ani…his contributions are too long.
Hhehhehhehhe chipuba if you correct him other Tongas rises against you, so nabena fipu..?
#23,#24,#35 and 30
Sorry #35 i meant #25
Zamtel is tittering on the brink because it still operates in analogue mode. The problem in Zambia is that computers and the internet are still considered status symbols. They are part of life elsewhere.
‘yewe’ utasunkwi a Satani mukutuka ibantu bacisi ba-Tonga! Mebo inga wandituka pesi utatuki mukwasyi wangu waba-Tonga oonse.
Bwasunu ndakulekelela.
#42. ako kanono ba nevers, Zamtel has NEAX 61E, E10 B among other Digital switching exchanges in most parts of the country. Even the transmission is done in digital form as PCM.
Do not just write something without consideration for some of us are attached to Zamtel and we know what is happening there.
MY COUSIN MAESTRO Hhe,
your posting are very iformative,accurate while your responses are civilised and has sense in all respect.those attacking are know failures[TREET KIDS & ADULTS-SELLING SWEETS TO EARN LIVING]whose monkey tricks of demeaning other tribes is haunting them and time is catching up with them.Keep it up.THUMB UP TO INTELLIGENT ,HARDWORKING SOUTHERN POWER.
#44. The Born Again, thank you and keep well in Zambia. I hope to join you back home soon although it appears like I will spend a long time in other countries – a thing I am beginning to detest though it is necessary due to the commitments I have undertaken that can not be given up easily.
I will otherwise remain committed to Zambia and will do my best for all Zambians to have a better life.
It’s world aids day, stop sleeping around!
Its like they were reading my mind, because in the abcence of training, computerisation would still not solve the problem. however, train competent staff, not relatives who cant even identify the space caser.