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Yiannis is a social, science and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer educated in Germany and US, currently heading Future Worlds Center (www.futureworlds.eu). He is Member of the Board of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras, national representative in several COST Actions, Insafe, Inhope, EU Kids online, ECSO, Cybercrime Centre of Excellence, ECTEG – Europol, etc. He is one of the 12 authors of the ONLIFE Manifesto drafted on behalf of the Digital Futures Task Force of the European Commission, which now guides EC funding priorities, as well as political and societal priorities in the hyper-connectivity era. He is Co-Founder of CYBERETHICS: Cyprus Safer Internet Center. In the 90’s he founded CYBER Kids (www.cyber-kids.com), a chain of franchised computer learning centers, which introduced IT in the lives of over 15,000 children and 10,000 adults in Cyprus and many more in the 7 countries where it was also launched. He also founded Gnous.com, which develops video games to assess cognitive profiles of growing children as a means to diagnose learning difficulties and to individualise learning programs.