Yiannis Laouris: Difference between revisions

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 and his team have envisioned and and raised funds to implement an impressive number of social change projects <ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/List_of_Future_Worlds_Center_Contracts List of funded projects</ref>, <ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/List_of_Grants_and_History_of_Fund_Raising History of funding</ref>, the most recent and relevant listed below:

* Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3)<ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Reinventing_democracy_(YiA_1.3)  Reinventing democracy (YiA 1.3) </ref>

* Youth envisage and design their ideal future (YiA 5.1)<ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Youth_envisage_and_design_their_ideal_future_(YiA_5.1) Youth envisage and design their ideal future (YiA 5.1) </ref>

* Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (2012)<ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Reinventing_Democracy_in_the_Digital_Era_(2012) Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era (2012)</ref>

* Engaging citizens to reinvent democracy<ref>http://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Engaging_citizens_to_reinvent_democracy Engaging citizens to reinvent democracy</ref>