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Learn
Understand legal technology, AI, digital evidence, data protection, court innovation, and emerging practice tools.
About JurisDev KE
A coordination space for Kenya's legal innovators.
JurisDev KE brings together lawyers, technologists, researchers, students and innovators to advance legal technology, digital justice and innovation within Kenya's legal ecosystem.
Why JurisDev exists
A working space for practical legal innovation.
Law and technology form our shared umbrella. Beneath it, themes evolve with member expertise and the real needs of legal practice, justice systems, and the public.
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Build
Support practical tools, templates, workflows, prototypes, and legal tech experiments that respond to real problems.
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Publish
Turn shared learning into articles, explainers, project notes, and practical resources the community can use.
Focus areas
Themes that connect legal work with technical reality.
Practical areas where law, digital systems, and access to justice already meet.
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Legal Technology
Practice tools, workflows, automation, document systems, client intake, legal operations, and modern service delivery.
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AI and Law
Responsible AI use, legal research, court administration, governance, ethics, auditability, and human oversight.
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Digital Justice
E-filing, virtual courts, public legal information, online dispute resolution, and access to justice.
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Data Protection and Cybersecurity
Privacy, compliance, digital risk, secure systems, client data protection, and responsible information handling.
Evidence practice
Digital Evidence
Electronic evidence, metadata, audit trails, admissibility, chain of custody, and litigation technology.
Our team
The people coordinating the work.
Volunteers who keep JurisDev KE organised, convene its sessions and steward its projects.
Team profiles are being prepared and will appear here soon.
Beyond the coordinating team, members across Kenya contribute their expertise. Explore a sample of consented member profiles.
Explore member profilesThematic teams
Five teams carry the work forward.
Members contribute through a team while community operations and membership remain shared responsibilities.
Branding, Marketing and Events
FormingShapes how JurisDev KE communicates, convenes people, and creates useful public-facing community experiences.
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Who should join
Communicators, designers, event organisers, photographers, facilitators, and people who understand community engagement.
Current priority
Build a consistent public voice and prepare the next programme of virtual and physical community sessions.
Technology
FormingExplores, builds, and evaluates technology that can improve legal practice, justice systems, and access to legal knowledge.
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Who should join
Developers, product designers, legal practitioners, no-code builders, data specialists, and technical researchers.
Current priority
Identify legal tools for structured community testing and develop a practical feedback framework.
Policy and Regulation
FormingExamines how law and public policy can support responsible, rights-aware adoption of emerging technologies.
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Who should join
Policy researchers, advocates, governance specialists, academics, civil society practitioners, and public-sector professionals.
Current priority
Map priority questions in AI governance, data protection, digital justice, and technology regulation.
Resource Mobilisation and Partnerships
FormingBuilds relationships and finds the resources needed to sustain practical projects, research, training, and convenings.
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Who should join
Partnership builders, proposal writers, fundraisers, institutional connectors, and people with strong ecosystem networks.
Current priority
Identify aligned institutions, technology communities, law schools, and justice-sector partners.
Education, Research and Literacy
FormingTurns research and practical experience into training, explainers, articles, and resources people can use.
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Who should join
Writers, researchers, trainers, editors, students, advocates, academics, and people who explain complex ideas clearly.
Current priority
Develop accessible AI literacy materials alongside a pathway for blogs and peer-reviewed publication.
Governance
Direction in developmentBuilding a community that can outlast its founders.
JurisDev KE is exploring a member-led nonprofit structure and a representative governance model. Its long-term ambition is to grow into a Kenyan think tank focused on law and technology. These directions remain under consideration as the community develops.
Partnerships
Open to thoughtful collaboration.
We work with law schools, technology communities, law firms, civic tech organisations, legal aid actors, researchers and institutions working on justice innovation.