Aleco Christakis: Difference between revisions

Aleco first collaborated with [[Future Worlds Center]] in 2006 in the context of the [[Civil Society Dialogue Project in Cyprus]], a project coordinated by the [[Cyprus EU Association]] and the [[Cyprus Intercultural Training Initiative]] with the [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras]] as partner. He co-facilitated a number of [[Structured Democratic Dialogue Process]] co-laboratories together with his associate [[Kevin Dye]] and Cypriots [[Yiannis Laouris]], [[Marios Michaelides]], [[Ilke Dagli]], [[Mustafa Damdelen]] and [[Derya Beyatli]]. Aleco  

[[Yiannis Laouris]] invited [[Aleco Christakis]] many times in Cyprus to interact with the [[Future Worlds Center]] team. In

Between June 18-July 1, 2010, pioneers of the [[Institute for 21st Century Agoras]] participated in a series of sessions of a virtual SDDP co-Laboratory with the Triggering Question: "In anticipation of the evolution of the Internet and other interactive technology platforms (social networks etc...) what should be the requirements for the next generation of Cogniscope/ Webscope software (CSIII) for the enhanced and scaled-up practice of SDD? The results are documented in [[SDDP Design of the next generation Cogniscope/Webscope]]. In 2012, [[Aleco Christakis]] donated the code and rights to [[Future Worlds Center]]. Many of the features that ended up at the root of the MAP, were used as requirements for the development of Cogniscope v.3. A number of programmers are credited with the development, mainly [[Savia Christou]] and [[Eleni Philippou]] but also between 2010-2012, [[Antonis Loizou]] and [[Lawrence Kalogreades]]. Cogniscope v.3 has been released with life-time unlimited license to the participants of the 2010 SDDP. Single and multiple professional licenses are sold by [[Ekkotek High-tech business incubator|Ekkotek]]. Free version are available for educators (limited functionalities) and unregistered SDDP Facilitators (limited time).