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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, Insafe, Inhope, EU Kids online, ECSO, Cybercrime Centre of Excellence, ECTEG – Europol, and served as national representative in several COST Actions, 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. Yiannis 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 accelerating institutional and societal change. He currently runs all structured democratic dialogues (SDDs) for the MARINA project, which is entirely based on the Responsible Research and Innovation approach. (www.marinaproject.eu). He also coordinates "Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era" (supported by the UN Democracy Fund) engaging about 1000 young leaders from across the globe in SDDs. 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. | |||
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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 the Director of CyberEthics, the Cyprus Safer Internet Center and his team represented EUKIDSONLINE and run many related projects, such as SimSafety.eu and InetRisks.net, which explored children and parents’ attitudes towards new technologies. 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. 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. | 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 the Director of CyberEthics, the Cyprus Safer Internet Center and his team represented EUKIDSONLINE and run many related projects, such as SimSafety.eu and InetRisks.net, which explored children and parents’ attitudes towards new technologies. 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. 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. | ||
