Digitising Legal Information
This section covers how Laws.Africa digitises African legislation for public use.
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This section covers how Laws.Africa digitises African legislation for public use.
Last updated
Who is Laws.Africa?
digitises African Legislation for public use. We improve access to African law through the Legislation Commons, a machine-friendly collection of African Legislation that is openly licensed.
Laws.Africa is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Laws.Africa digitises legislation into a machine friendly format called . We then publish it on partner websites in formats that are easy to find, search, read and share. This improves access to, and an understanding of, the law.
is a Laws.Africa project that makes up-to-date South African municipal by-laws available for free. Users can browse, search and read the by-laws on their laptops or mobile phones, and download PDFs to print or for offline use.
is a legal information website for Namibia, which includes legislation from Laws.Africa.
is a Laws.Africa project that makes African government gazettes available for free.
Machine friendly legislation makes this possible. It means that a computer can understand the structure of the legislation and can automate a lot of tasks that used to be done by hand, such as creating a Table of contents, text formatting, PDF generation and linking sections.