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-'''Yiannis Laouris''' has enivioned the [[Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era]] project and serves as its [[Project Director]]. He is Chair of the Board of Future Worlds Center <ref>http://www.futureworldscenter.org Future Worlds Center</ref> and Executive Board Member of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras <ref>http://www.globalagoras.org Institute for 21st Century Agoras</ref>. Yiannis has been the founder of many organizations including  CYBER KIDS <ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/CYBER_KIDS CYBER KIDS</ref>,  Ekkotek High-tech business incubator <ref>http://ekkotek.com Ekkotek High-tech business incubator</ref>, Technology for Peace <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_for_peace Technology for Peace</ref>,  Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies <ref>http://www.cyprussystemssociety.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies</ref>. He currently serves as Acting Dean for the N.E.T.S. Mediterranean Graduate School of Applied Social Cognition <ref>http://www.nets-uni.net N.E.T.S. Mediterranean Graduate School of Applied Social Cognition</ref>.
+'''Yiannis Laouris''' has envisioned and launched the [[Reinventing Education]] project.
+Yiannis has been the founder of an innovative chain of computer learning centers known as CYBER KIDS <ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/CYBER_KIDS CYBER KIDS</ref> in 1991. He is CEO of Future Worlds Center <ref>http://www.futureworldscenter.org Future Worlds Center</ref>, Executive Board Member of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras <ref>http://www.globalagoras.org Institute for 21st Century Agoras</ref> and many other international organizations. He has been the founder of many organizations including Ekkotek High-tech business incubator <ref>http://ekkotek.com Ekkotek High-tech business incubator</ref>, GNOUS Labs Ltd., Technology for Peace <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_for_peace Technology for Peace</ref>,  Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies <ref>http://www.cyprussystemssociety.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies</ref> and the N.E.T.S. Mediterranean Graduate School of Applied Social Cognition <ref>http://www.nets-uni.net N.E.T.S. Mediterranean Graduate School of Applied Social Cognition</ref>.
 Yiannis is the Head of the Futures Design Unit of Future Worlds Center <ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Futures_Design_Unit Futures Design Unit of Future Worlds Center</ref> under which the [[Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era]] project is being implemented.
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+<td width="30%" align="left" valign="top">__TOC__</td><td valign="top" width="70%">{{#ev:youtube| 0Ob4Frrovsc| 250 |left|One of many interviews about [[Cyberethics]], the safer internet center of Cyprus}}</td></tr>
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 Yiannis is a strong promoter of using technology as a means to achieve positive social change. In 1992, he launched CYBER KIDS <ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/CYBER_KIDS CYBER KIDS</ref>, a nation-wide experiment, with the vision that introducing advanced computer technology in the lives of a critical number of young children using an educationally relevant and socially responsible, peace-enhancing curriculum would allow them to “transcend” the country’s educational and political life and move the new generation a decade ahead. By 1999, the number of ]]children who benefited from their curriculum exceeded 15,000, which is approximately equal to 20% of the country’s youth population (ages 6-15). In 1997, together with other peace builders, he founded the Technology for Peace project <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_for_peace Technology for Peace</ref>, which supported Cypriot peace builders in their communication and planning at a time when no telephone signals or people could cross the cease-fire zone.
-Yiannis served as invited Expert of the [[Core Foresight 2050]], think tank groups created by the Digital Futures Task Force of the European Commission to anticipate global changes on the planet and to advice the EC on how ICT could facilitate shape those futures by 2050. As member of the The Onlife Initiative <ref>http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-original-outcome The Onlife Initiative</ref>, together with 11 other philosophers and natural scientists he co-authored the Onlife Manifesto <ref>http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-original-outcome Onlife Manifesto</ref>, <ref>http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319040929 The Onlife manifesto, Open Access my Springer</ref>, which discusses how the  deployment of ICTs and their uptake by society radically affects the human condition by modifying our relationships to ourselves, to others and to the world around us. He is also member of the Wisdom Research Network of the University of Chicago<ref>[http://wisdomresearch.org/members/laouris.aspx Wisdom Research Network of the University of Chicago]</ref>.
+Yiannis served as invited Expert of the Core Foresight 2050 <ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Core_Foresight_2050 Core Foresight 2050 </ref>, think tank groups created by the Digital Futures Task Force of the European Commission to anticipate global changes on the planet and to advice the EC on how ICT could facilitate shape those futures by 2050. As member of the The Onlife Initiative <ref>http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-original-outcome The Onlife Initiative</ref>, together with 11 other philosophers and natural scientists he co-authored the Onlife Manifesto <ref>http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-original-outcome Onlife Manifesto</ref>, <ref>http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319040929 The Onlife manifesto, Open Access my Springer</ref>, which discusses how the  deployment of ICTs and their uptake by society radically affects the human condition by modifying our relationships to ourselves, to others and to the world around us. He is also member of the Wisdom Research Network of the University of Chicago<ref>[http://wisdomresearch.org/members/laouris.aspx Wisdom Research Network of the University of Chicago]</ref>.
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+[[Category:Participant GEF Forum Moscow 2016]]
+[[Category: Participant GEF Forum Prague 2016]]
+[[Category: Participant Cyprus 2016 Futuriser]]