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=Bio used for ISSS2015, 2015= | =Bio used for ISSS2015, 2015= | ||
Social and business entrepreneur, chair of Future Worlds Center, Secretary General of the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies, and Board Member of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras. He leads a global project | Social and business entrepreneur, chair of Future Worlds Center, Secretary General of the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies, and Board Member of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras. He leads a global project "Re-inventing democracy in the digital era", funded by both the Digital Futures Unit of the EC and the UN Democracy Fund. He is one of the 12 experts who co-authored the Onlife Manifesto on behalf of the European Commission. Pioneers in the application of the Structured Dialogic Design process (SDD) in the Cyprus and the Middle East peace movement and in many pan-European and global networks supporting stakeholders design their own futures. His work was published in books and scientific papers and was honored with numerous awards. He now develops systems to enable scaling up the SDD process to engage asynchronously thousands in meaningful dialogue, thus accelerating positive social change. | ||
=Bio used for HSSS2015, 2015= | =Bio used for HSSS2015, 2015= | ||
