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Laouris is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer, working as Senior Scientist and Chair of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute (www.cnti.org.cy) and Future Worlds Center (www.futureworlds.eu). He is also the Rector of N.E.T.S., an innovative Graduate School, whose 20 PhD students collaborate to develop scientifically grounded methodologies and tools to "design" our future and to re-invent systems of governing ourselves. He promotes the application of mobile learning and broadband technologies to bridge ethnic-, digital-, economic-, educational- and inter-personal divides on our planet. In the 90’s he founded CYBER Kids (www.cyber-kids.com), a chain of franchised computer learning centers, which introduced creative thinking, problem-solving, team-work and other abilities using IT in the lives of thousands of children and adults in several countries. Laouris is an international leader in the theory and application of the science of structured dialogic design and conducts research towards developing systems to enable scaling up participatory dialogic processes to engage asynchronously thousands of people in meaningful authentic dialogues, thus reinventing democracy and accelerating institutional and societal change. His current work focuses on combining the power of mobile learning with the science of structured democratic dialogue to create collaborative environments that harness collective intelligence and collective wisdom. He has published extensively book chapters, peer-revised articles and conference papers in neuroscience, applied systems science and peace, and in the neuroscience of learning.