From a base in Windhoek, Namibia, IJN has partnered with the Namibian Ministry of Justice, the University of Namibia's Law Faculty, and the Stanford Law School International Human Rights Clinic to design and build a sustainable, open source web-based collaboration system for the Namibian judiciary. This project will help Namibia leave behind the apartheid legal structures and address the communication and research technology challenges of this emergent democracy’s legal system.

Key components of our collaborative effort include designing and building an extranet to enable the Lower Courts to communicate and collaborate with each other and review important national and international legal decisions immediately; training Justice Ministry officials to use, update, and maintain the extranet independently; and identifying and procuring reference materials on international human rights law for inclusion in the extranet. The Project Partnership will also build a website for the Namibian public to facilitate community access to information about the Namibian legal system.

The Project Partnership will evaluate, improve, and document the system's effectiveness over the two years of implementation in order to provide a model for other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.