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Yiannis Laouris supervises the Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era project and serves as Project Director. He is Chair of the Board of Future Worlds Center and Executive Board Member of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras. Yiannis has been the founder of many organizations including CYBER KIDS, Ekkotek High-tech business incubator, Technology for Peace, Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies. He currently serves as Acting Dean for the N.E.T.S. Mediterranean Graduate School of Applied Social Cognition and as Head of the Futures Design Unit of Future Worlds Center.
Yiannis is a trong promoter of using technology as a means to achieve positive social change. In 1992, he launched CYBER KIDS, 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, 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, together with 11 other philosophers and natural scientists he co-autghored the Onlife Manifesto, which
A number of more recent projects
- Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3)
- Youth envisage and design their ideal future (YiA 5.1)
- Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (2012)
- Engaging citizens to reinvent democracy
- Member of the Wisdom Research Network of the University of Chicago[1].
Laouris has served in the past or continues to serve in many European networks such as:
- As National Representative and/or Expert in many European Research Networks
- COST 276: Knowledge Management (Invited Expert 2005-2006)
- COST 219ter Accessibility for all to services and terminals for next generation mobile networks (National Representative 2005-2007)
- COST 298: Participation in the Broadband society (Invited Expert 2007-2008)
- COST 2102: Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Non-verbal Communication (National Representative 2008-2011)
- Insafe (Member of the Steering Committee 2006-present and Member of the Advisory Board 2010-2012)
- EU Kids Online (National Representative 2008-Present).
Publications
Yiannis authored Masks of Demons, a book that exposes stereotypes between so-called "'lifelong"' enemies. He also published a short book Citizens Commandments in which he presents the demands of normal people from their leaders.He has has over 50 peered reviewed papers in experimental neuroscience, neuropsychology, neuro-education, collective wisdom and structured dialogue and over 150 conference presentations.
Awards
Yiannis received numerous honors and awards, the most notable being:
- Summa cum laude for his PhD (1985)
- Provost's Teaching Award and Medical Innovation Award for innovation in university teaching (1991/1992)
- Creativity Award to Cyber Kids Curriculum for Innovation and creativity by the Employers and Industrialists Federation (1998)
- The Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies Award for contributions in systems science (2008)
- Honorable Mention of the Anna Lindh Award to Future Worlds Center for promoting intercultural dialogue freedom and citizenship (2011)
- Award by the Digital Champion of Cyprus for his role and support in establishing an award process for innovations in digital economy