Short Bios/Yiannis Laouris: Difference between revisions

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Yiannis Laouris is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer, currently working as Senior Scientist and Chair of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute, renamed to Future Worlds Center (www.futureworlds.eu). Laouris is founding member and elected Secretary General of the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies, member of the Board of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras and member of the Board and partner of several high-tech companies including gnous.com, ekkotek.com etc. In the 90’s he founded CYBER Kids (futureworlds.eu/wiki/CYBER_KIDS), a chain of franchised computer learning centers, which introduced IT in the lives of thousands of children and adults in several countries as his social intervention to transcend the country 10 years ahead. He promotes the application of broadband technologies and structured democratic dialogue as tools to bridge the digital-, economic-, educational- and inter-personal divides in our planet. He 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. Laouris has published extensively in neuroscience, applied systems science and peace, and in the neuroscience of learning. He has co-authored the ONLIFE Manifest (), The Reinventing Democracy in the Digital Era manifesto and several books, chapters, and articles.