Using knowledge management to reform the Russian Criminal Procedural Codex

The SenseViewer Knowledge Management System (KMS) helps users retrieve and understand information fragments and their attributes by linking them to underlying arguments within their topic realm and exposing their context within source documents. This paper examines SenseViewer, its relationship to rapid knowledge construction, and its use to support the drafting and passage of a new Criminal Procedural Codex by the Russian DUMA. It considers what set of KM functions and tools facilitate the legislative process and dissemination of knowledge to the populace. SenseViewer illustrates a new generation of web-based e-government KMS. D 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.