In Africa, for the first time: (a) judges can learn about the law meant to govern their decisions; (b) the administrative offices of governments can see the rules they are required to apply; (c) citizens are empowered to take note of their rights — even in remote regions of a country, which are devoid of any kind of ordinary infrastructure (Congo-Kinshasa, for example); (d) judgments be recorded and thus a starting point is created for a coherent judiciary and the development of legal doctrine; (e) laws can be compiled and published in comprehensive editions, purging parts abolished and including new amendments [known as toilettage, a task undertaken by legal editors in OECD countries]; and (f) the actual text of the law itself is secured through multiple, state-of-the-art electronic archives. Moreover, those who seek to draft new laws can find models in member states with similar traditions.
From left to right: Bob Kocher (President – Ideal Innovations, Inc.), George Spina (President – GLIN Foundation), Don Wallace (Chairman – International Law Institute), Peter Higgins (Program Manager GLIN 2), Seydou Sinka (Chargé d’affaires – Burkina Faso Embassy – Washington, DC), Mr. Alain Jean-Baptiste Ouattara (Secrétaire Général du Gouvernement et du Conseil des Ministres of Burkina Faso), Nicole Ouattara, William S. Sessions (US Federal Judge [retired], former Director of the FBI, and an advisor to the GLIN Foundation), Lucien K. Ilboudo (Burkina Faso GLIN Station Chief).