Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Improving Trust, Accessibility, and Efficiency of Digital Justice for Vulnerable Population in Uganda

Abstract

As global technologies develop, they integrate into social and state institutions. Mundane public communications were the first to embrace computers, smartphones, social networks, etc. These days, modern technologies facilitate the interaction between the state and its people. As a result, the state increases the internal and external availability of public services. The current friendly relations between the Russian Federation and some African countries may win from using new information technologies in politics and business. In this sense, modern communications require a better understanding of such innovative institutions as the so-called digital justice, which employs digital tools as a platform of justice administration. It has a good potential for resolving social issues of African population, as well as major economic disputes. The article describes the legal aspects of the new dispute resolution opportunities that digital justice offers the people of Uganda. It focuses on the prospects and problems of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in settling disputes in court, especially in those aspects that concern the most vulnerable social strata. Blockchain algorithms prove effective in resolving land ownership disputes in Uganda while artificial intelligence may be used to provide pro bono legal services.

Keywords

• digitalization
• legal proceedings
• evidence
• assurance
• blockchain
• uganda
• artificial intelligence