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       |current_post=Founder and CEO of FutureSharp
       |current_post=Founder and CEO of FutureSharp
       |degrees= Medical Degree<br>PhD (Neurophysiology)<br>MSc (Systems & Ind Eng)
       |degrees= BComm cum laude, Economics, Media & Marketing<br>Core & Advanced Integral, Integral Theory & Application
       |universities= University of Leipzig<br>Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology<br>University of Arizona
       |universities= University of Pretoria<br>Integral Institute
       |specializations= Neuroscience<br>Collective Intelligence/Wisdom<br>Peace & Conflict Resolution<br> [[Science of Dialogic Design]]
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       |socioacademic=Working at the interface between science, technology and social entrepreneurship
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       |achievements=Several Honors and Awards
       |achievements=Several Honors and Awards
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==Biography==
'''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>.
Irma Wilson lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and is active globally.  
She is the founder of FutureSharp; a member of the Peer-to-Peer Foundation; linked to the Centre for Governance Innovation; sits on the board of the South African Innovation Network; an associate advisor of ci2i co-creation global group who pursues the best possible outcome for us all in the ongoing Human Project.  


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.
She is a futurist, business unusual strategist, edge inhabiter and provocateur, who keeps a finger on the Social Economic and Inclusive Innovation pulses. She looks at meta trends and speak on behalf of future generations. She investigates the ways in which imagination and individual agency can be activated to create engaged global citizens. A whole systems design thinker with special attention on collective intelligence creation, processes towards co-creation, meme design and the spread thereof.


Yiannis is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer, active in multiple dimensions.  
She is an icebreaker; She see connections; She contextualize and prepares the terrain, prepares the table for deal-makers; She makes what is not yet visible, visible; She is a collaborative researcher, interactive conversation facilitator and keynote speaker. Creativity activated is powerful.
Because ''an image is worth a thousand words'', the videos below are provided as quick reference.
 
 
 
 
 
Currently focused on making generative normative futures visible, understood and invite participation in creating, with implementation of whole systems thinking and architecture. Interested in the intersection between futurism and behavioral change; in giving voice to actionable working alternatives; surfacing existing means through which people can engage in and act upon insights; all aligned with a directionality towards creating conditions for life, regeneration towards a generative thriving world with creatively engaged citizens.
Long term, looking at wisdom, agility & creativity; decision-making structures; addressing power and influence in the Anthropocene era.
 
==Work==
She is the founder and CEO of FutureSharp, since November 2011.
FutureSharp makes Africa-to-Africa innovation for inclusive development visible, attractive, understood and implementable in a variety of ways: build systems of support and facilitate communities to redefine their needs, re-examine beliefs and values, map their competencies and implement re-enlivenment of Ubuntu using p2p methods, new organisational as well as collective intelligence technologies. This includes roadshows, collaborative media content & reportage and governance innovation projects. FutureSharp engages both at grassroots and policy level. The African focus is on localized regeneration, action research and understanding on how to communicate that which is borne from massive complexity, in difficult circumstances to great diversity in non-obfuscating language.  


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<td width="30%" align="left" valign="top">__TOC__</td><td valign="top" width="70%">{{#ev:youtube| WeNNYv-150U | 250 |left|Presentation of the [[ONLIFE Manifesto]] at the European Parliament on Dec 2, 2014}}</td>
<td width="30%" align="left" valign="top">__TOC__</td><td valign="top" width="70%">{{#ev:youtube| WeNNYv-150U | 250 |left|Imra Wilson's addresses the Youth for Democracy}}</td>
<td width="30%" align="left" valign="top">__TOC__</td><td valign="top" width="70%">{{#ev:youtube| k_eRWUDvn8M | 250 |left|Irma Wilson's thoughts on Reinventing Democracy}}</td>
<td width="30%" align="left" valign="top">__TOC__</td><td valign="top" width="70%">{{#ev:youtube| k_eRWUDvn8M | 250 |left|Irma Wilson's thoughts on Reinventing Democracy}}</td>


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==External Links==
==External Links==
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* https://www.linkedin.com/in/irma69vision




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Revision as of 10:14, 4 November 2015

Irma Wilson
Irma Wilson
Current Post Founder and CEO of FutureSharp
Degree(s) BComm cum laude, Economics, Media & Marketing
Core & Advanced Integral, Integral Theory & Application
University(ies) University of Pretoria
Integral Institute
Notable Achievements Several Honors and Awards


Biography

Irma Wilson lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and is active globally. She is the founder of FutureSharp; a member of the Peer-to-Peer Foundation; linked to the Centre for Governance Innovation; sits on the board of the South African Innovation Network; an associate advisor of ci2i co-creation global group who pursues the best possible outcome for us all in the ongoing Human Project.

She is a futurist, business unusual strategist, edge inhabiter and provocateur, who keeps a finger on the Social Economic and Inclusive Innovation pulses. She looks at meta trends and speak on behalf of future generations. She investigates the ways in which imagination and individual agency can be activated to create engaged global citizens. A whole systems design thinker with special attention on collective intelligence creation, processes towards co-creation, meme design and the spread thereof.

She is an icebreaker; She see connections; She contextualize and prepares the terrain, prepares the table for deal-makers; She makes what is not yet visible, visible; She is a collaborative researcher, interactive conversation facilitator and keynote speaker. Creativity activated is powerful.



Currently focused on making generative normative futures visible, understood and invite participation in creating, with implementation of whole systems thinking and architecture. Interested in the intersection between futurism and behavioral change; in giving voice to actionable working alternatives; surfacing existing means through which people can engage in and act upon insights; all aligned with a directionality towards creating conditions for life, regeneration towards a generative thriving world with creatively engaged citizens. Long term, looking at wisdom, agility & creativity; decision-making structures; addressing power and influence in the Anthropocene era.

Work

She is the founder and CEO of FutureSharp, since November 2011. FutureSharp makes Africa-to-Africa innovation for inclusive development visible, attractive, understood and implementable in a variety of ways: build systems of support and facilitate communities to redefine their needs, re-examine beliefs and values, map their competencies and implement re-enlivenment of Ubuntu using p2p methods, new organisational as well as collective intelligence technologies. This includes roadshows, collaborative media content & reportage and governance innovation projects. FutureSharp engages both at grassroots and policy level. The African focus is on localized regeneration, action research and understanding on how to communicate that which is borne from massive complexity, in difficult circumstances to great diversity in non-obfuscating language.


Imra Wilson's addresses the Youth for Democracy
Irma Wilson's thoughts on Reinventing Democracy


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