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==Dec 2023 Portsmouth Seminar== | |||
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. They develop 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. He is 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, ov 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 (pending) from Portsmouth. 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. | |||
==Jan 2023 Springer Janet Book== | ==Jan 2023 Springer Janet Book== |