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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, 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 is a strong 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 <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-autghored the Onlife Manifesto, 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]], 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 <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-autghored the Onlife Manifesto, 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>. | ||
A number of more recent projects listed below were envisioned and implemented by Yiannis and his team: | |||
* Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3) | * Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3) | ||