Aleco Christakis: Difference between revisions

[[Yiannis Laouris]] invited [[Aleco Christakis]] many times in Cyprus to interact with the [[Future Worlds Center]] team. Between 2008 and October 2015 Aleco served as Member of the Board. He also served for a short period of time in the [[N.E.T.S. Board of Trustees]] and the [[N.E.T.S. Academic Staff]].

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-Laboratory|co-laboratories]] together with his associate [[Kevin Dye]] and Cypriots [[Yiannis Laouris]], [[Marios Michaelides]], [[Ilke Dagli]], [[Mustafa Damdelen]] and [[Derya Beyatli]]. Aleco provided mentorship and training in the science.

Between 2009-2010 Aleco collaborated with [[Future Worlds Center in the implementation of ten SDDPs across Cyprus to diagnose the educational and training needs of the local authorities with the aim of upgrading the operation of local governance in Cyprus. The project was in collaboration with [[Cyprus International Institute of Management]] and [[Price Waterhouse Coopers (Cyprus)]] in the context of Tender: [[Provision of Services for the Diagnosis of Learning and Development Needs for the Local Authorities of the Cyprus Republic]].

Between 2009 and 2012 he co-organized with [[Yiannis Laouris]] and taught taught five International SDDP Facilitators Training Schools [[1st International SDDP Facilitators Training School|1st]], [[2nd International SDDP Facilitators Training School|2nd]], [[3rd International SDDP Facilitators Training School|3rd]], [[4th International SDDP Facilitators Training School (Thessaloniki)|4th]], [[5th International SDDP Facilitators Training School|5th]].

In 2010, Aleco collaborated with [[Yiannis Laouris]] and virtually all key members of the GlobalAgoras in organizing a series of virtual SDDP co-Laboratories 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 of [[Cognitive Software]] and its rights to [[Future Worlds Center]], which upgraded it to include the new requirements proposed and made it available for free to the community.