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'''Yiannis Laouris''' is the overall supervisor for the project.He is Chair of the Board of [[Future Worlds Center]] and Executive Board Member of the [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras]].
'''Yiannis Laouris''' supervises  the 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 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




was inspirer and key founding member of many organizations including the following:
* [[Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute]]
* [[Future Worlds Center]]
* [[CYBER KIDS]]
* [[Ekkotek High-tech business incubator]]
* [[Technology for Peace]]
* [[Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies]]
and a number of other organizations and initiatives.
Laouris currently serves as and [[Head of Unit|head]] of the [[New Media Lab]] and the [[Neuroscience Lab]]. He serves in the following posts:
* * 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.
* Invited Expert of the [[The Onlife Initiative]], a high profile Think Tank of 14 philosophers and natural scientists created by the Digital Futures Task Force of the European Commission to anticipate changes in the concepts humans use to explain the world and to advice the EC whether concept re-engineering might be necessary.
* 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>.
* 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>.
* Represents Cyprus as Delegate of the [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative|Cybercrime Initiative]] launched by the Commonwealth in 2011.
* Represents Cyprus as Delegate of the [[Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiative|Cybercrime Initiative]] launched by the Commonwealth in 2011.
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