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Yiannis Laouris is a social, science and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer. He promotes the application of digital technologies and structured democratic dialogue as tools to harness the collective intelligence and collective wisdom of people. His team develops systems to scale up participatory dialogic processes to engage asynchronously thousands of participants in meaningful authentic dialogues, thus accelerating positive societal change. They have implemented more than 100 global projects, engaging thousands, to Re-inventing Democracy and Education in the Digital Era. Yiannis founded Future Worlds Center, the Cyprus Neuroscience & Technology institute, the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies, and several high-tech companies.  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 over 15,000 children and 10,000 adults in Cyprus and many more in the 7 countries where it was also launched to transcend the countries 10 years ahead. The curriculum was grounded on cybernetics. He is also Founder of CYBERETHICS: Cyprus Safer Internet Center. Yiannis is or was member of board, national coordinator and/or representative in many European and International bodies, including the Institute for 21st Century Agoras, 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. He has published in neuroscience, applied systems science and peace, and in the neuroscience of learning; several books. Laouris has a medical degree and a PhD in Neurophysiology from Germany, and an MS in Systems & Industrial Engineering from the US, and a PhD in Systems Engineering from Portsmouth University. His work is published in several books, over 100 scientific papers and honored with more than 12 distinguished awards. ORCID number: 0000-0002-9081-5849.