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by the Lab to help members of the public understand the recent Renting Homes Wales Act; and presented at a ‘Lunch’n’Learn’ event to raise awareness and engagement with the Lab amongst Swansea University academics. • Publication of research articles, including ‘A comparative analysis of Islamic State (IS) Channels on Telegram’ , in the International Journal of Security, Terrorism and Society; ‘M aking the most of cybercrime and fraud crime report data: a case study of UK Action Frau d’ in the International Journal of Population Data Science; a paper on ‘Taking stock o f available technologies for compliance checking on first- order knowledge’ was presented at the 37th Italian Conference on Computational Logic; and two conferences papers were submitted to the 14th International Conference On Global Security, Safety & Sustainability in London. • Contributions to reports, insights, and reviews. For example, a Senior Lecturer published a co- edited ‘Handbook of Legal AI’ , a CYTREC Lecturer had a chapter accepted for publication with the ‘ Crime Data Handbook ’, another CYTREC Senior Lecturer co - authored seven book chapters in 2022, whilst the Co-Principal Investigator and Director of CYTREC co-authored a report for the Global Network on Extremism and Technology (GNET). 2.27 In addition, the operation has created a substantial volume of online content, in both English and Welsh, to promote and educate the law sector about LegalTech, including ‘tech explainer’ videos and blogs (by both the research teams and Software Development Team). The LILW also delivered a series of knowledge exchange sessions over seven weeks in Summer 2022 targeted primarily at trainee solicitors. These aimed to provide insight into how different technologies could be implemented in the workplace. Around 50 individuals signed-up for the sessions, which were focused on providing practical examples and guidance on the use of and opportunities from LegalTech. The operation also hosted (with the Welsh Government) a Legal Hackathon Wales in July 2022. 2.28 Prototypes developed by the LILW are open source and available on the Developer page of the website. 4 By June 2023, this included details on 11 operation projects, including (where relevant) source code and links to prototypes/demonstrations of the applications and/or further details about the project.

4 https://developer.legaltech.wales/

Legal Innovation Lab Wales

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