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'''The Onlife Initiative ''', also known as Concept Reengineering Think Tank is a project envisioned and implemented directly by the EC's Information Society DG<ref>[https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-initiative Concept Reenginering website at INFO page]</ref>. It falls under the "Digital Futures" initiative. The project intends to explore the extent to which the digital transition impacts societal expectations towards policy making. [[Yiannis Laouris]] participates in the Think Tank, which is currently composed of 14 experts<ref>[http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/workshop-members Members of the Think Tank]</ref>.
'''The Onlife Initiative ''', also known as Concept Reengineering Think Tank is a project envisioned and implemented directly by the EC's Information Society DG<ref>[https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-initiative Concept Reenginering website at INFO page]</ref>. It falls under the "Digital Futures" initiative. The project intends to explore the extent to which the digital transition impacts societal expectations towards policy making. [[Yiannis Laouris]] participates in the Think Tank, which is currently composed of 13 experts<ref>[http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/workshop-members Members of the Think Tank]</ref>.


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* The  reversing from the primacy of entities over interactions to the primacy of interactions over entities.
* The  reversing from the primacy of entities over interactions to the primacy of interactions over entities.


The working of the group are chaired by Prof. Luciano Floridi <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Floridi Luciano Floridi's page in Wikipedia]</ref>. Person in charge from the EC is  Nicole Zwaaneveld.
The working of the group is chaired by Prof. Luciano Floridi <ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Floridi Luciano Floridi's page in Wikipedia]</ref>. Person in charge from the EC is  Nicole Zwaaneveld.
 
The Group has completed its work and released the ideas and thoughts in the form of a Manifesto. A special website<ref>https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-web-output Onlife Web Output</ref> has been created by the Digital Futures Task Force to host online all results. The Manifesto was released during a special event attended by 120 experts across Europe on February 8, 2013. The whole event has been recoded and is available on line in the same pages.
 
==OnLife Activities==
 
Following the release of the Manifest on February 8, 2013, the first next public presentation of the event, [[OnLife Manifesto: Being Human in an Hyperconnected Era, Yiannis Laouris, Pireaus Feb 16, 2013]]<ref>http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/futurium/en/comment/109#comment-109 OnLife Manifesto: Being Human in an Hyperconnected Era, Yiannis Laouris, Pireaus Feb 16, 2013</ref>
The event  took place in Greece, the mother country of Democracy. The presented was [[Yiannis Laouris]]. The event was hosted by the [[University of Pireaus]] and the [[Hellenic Society of Systemic Studies]].
 
 


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