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+Yiannis Laouris is the 70th President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences . A graduate of the medical school of Leipzig University, he started his career as a general practician. Yiannis was the first-ever foreign student in ex-East Germany to conclude his studies with a doctorate (awarded a PhD in Neurophysiology from Carl-Ludwig Institute of Neurophysiology with summa cum laude).
+During his early career in Goettingen, Germany, and Tuscon, Arizona, he studied the transmission properties and fatigue of motor neurons, muscle afferents, and Renshaw cells, applying digital signal processing in time and frequency domains to single-cell recordings, establishing and quantifying interesting relations between linear and non-linear characteristics in the behavior of neurons. In the 90s, he founded CYBER Kids, an international chain of franchised computer learning centers, which introduced IT to thousands of children in eight countries using a novel scientific approach grounded on cybernetics.
+Yiannis founded Future Worlds Center, the Cyprus Neuroscience & Technology Institute , the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies, CYBERETHICS: Cyprus Safer Internet Center, and several high-tech companies. Yiannis is or was a 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. His current focus is on designing and developing systems to scale up participatory dialogic processes capable of engaging thousands of participants in meaningful, authentic dialogues, thus accelerating positive societal change asynchronously. His team has implemented more than 100 global initiatives, engaging thousands in projects aiming to Re-inventing Democracy and Education in the Digital Era and promote just, ethical, and sustainable futures.
+Representing the authors of the ONLIFE Manifesto, Yiannis advocated the necessity of democratic dialogical processes in modern governance at the European parliament.
+Yiannis also has an MS (USA) and a PhD (UK) in Systems Engineering. His work has been published in several books and over 100 scientific papers, and he has been honored with more than a dozen distinguished awards.
+* https://wiki.isss.org/index.php/Yiannis_Laouris
+* www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Newspaper_coverage_of_the_Doctorate
+* www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/CYBER_KIDS
+* https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Future_Worlds_Center
+* https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Cyprus_Neuroscience_and_Technology_Institute
+* https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Cyberethics:_Cyprus_Safer_Internet_Center
+* https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04093-6
+* https://youtu.be/lWRW2sSqVGU?si=J0OXlCj9e-ft_IbA
+* ORCID number: 0000-0002-9081-5849.
+* https://www.futureworlds.eu/wiki/Vitae/Yiannis_Laouris/Honors_and_Awards
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 Social and business entrepreneur; neuroscientist and systems engineer. Laouris 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 processes to engage asynchronously thousands of participants in meaningful authentic dialogues, thus accelerating positive societal change. They implemented 100+ global projects, in peace and conflict resolution, local reforms, re-inventing democracy and education in the digital era, etc. In the 90’s he founded CYBER Kids (futureworlds.eu/wiki/CYBER_KIDS); chain of franchised computer learning centers, grounded on cybernetics, which introduced IT in the lives of thousands of children in Cyprus and 7 other countries. Founder of CYBERETHICS: Cyprus Safer Internet Center, served as national representative in 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 European Commission’s ONLIFE Manifesto. Has published in neuroscience, applied systems science and peace, and in neuroscience of learning; Medical degree and PhD in Neurophysiology, Germany; MS in Systems & Industrial Engineering, US; PhD in Systems Engineering, UK. Published several books, 100+ scientific papers; honored with 12 distinguished awards.