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==Bio ISSS 2014== | ==Bio ISSS 2014== | ||
Laouris is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist, and a systems engineer with academic background in medicine and engineering. He chairs Future Worlds Center and Rector of N.E.T.S., an innovative Graduate School, whose 20 PhD students collaborate to develop scientifically grounded methodologies and tools to "design" our future and to re-invent systems of governing. He is member of a Think Tank of the European Commission that developed the Onlife Manifesto (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-original-outcome). He promotes the application of mobile learning and broadband technologies to bridge ethnic-, digital-, economic-, educational- and inter-personal divides on our planet. He was member of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group that planned and carried out trainings in communications- and conflict resolution skills that eventually reached thousands from both the Greek and Turkish communities. Together with Aleco Christakis and Marios Michaelides, he applied the Structured Democratic Dialogue Process (SDDP) worldwide. His books MasksofDemons.com and CitizensCommandments.com are relevant. His contributions in systems science applications were recognized by the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies with their 2008 Award. His group develops systems to enable scaling up the SDD process to engage asynchronously thousands in meaningful dialogue, thus accelerating positive societal change. | Laouris is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist, and a systems engineer with academic background in medicine and engineering. He chairs Future Worlds Center and Rector of N.E.T.S., an innovative Graduate School, whose 20 PhD students collaborate to develop scientifically grounded methodologies and tools to "design" our future and to re-invent systems of governing. He is member of a Think Tank of the European Commission that developed the Onlife Manifesto (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/onlife-original-outcome). He promotes the application of mobile learning and broadband technologies to bridge ethnic-, digital-, economic-, educational- and inter-personal divides on our planet. He was member of the Cyprus Conflict Resolution Trainers Group that planned and carried out trainings in communications- and conflict resolution skills that eventually reached thousands from both the Greek and Turkish communities. Together with Aleco Christakis and Marios Michaelides, he applied the Structured Democratic Dialogue Process (SDDP) worldwide. His books MasksofDemons.com and CitizensCommandments.com are relevant. His contributions in systems science applications were recognized by the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies with their 2008 Award. His group develops systems to enable scaling up the SDD process to engage asynchronously thousands in meaningful dialogue, thus accelerating positive societal change. | ||
==Bio for Poland 2014== | |||
Laouris is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer. He is Director of CyberEthics, the Cyprus Safer Internet Center, Chair of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute and Rector of NETS, a small University offering only one PhD program focusing on designing better futures. His research and social work focus on developing creativity and problem solving abilities, as well as social responsibility and ethics in children growing in the digital era. His team is researching children's and parents' attitudes in interacting with modern technologies and they design virtual environments and products capitalising on mobile technologies. He has published extensively book chapters, peer-revised articles and conference papers in neuroscience, applied systems science and peace, and in the neuroscience of learning. | |||
Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiannis_Laouris | |||
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