Laouris Yiannis at GEF Moscow

1. Change
the world
Change
Education

2. Yiannis Laouris

3. 1. Do we all agree that we
should change Education?
2. Do we all know what
Education we envision?

4. ReinventDemocracy.info

5. Engaging >1000 young leaders in
global activism
Global Education Futures Moscow:
29 Feb – 2 Mar 2016

7. • Increase youth participation and
collaboration in decision making processes
• Empower young people invent innovative
actions to reinvent democracy
Key Objective

10. IdeaPrism
• IdeaPrism is a mobile App that
runs on Apple and Android
devices, which allows participants
to enter their ideas, clarifications
and short videos online

16. The voice of the crowd??

17. COMPUTATIONAL AGE MAKES POSSIBLE
 Direct Democracy is a threat
 Direct, real-time participation in
deliberations AND also in
decisions

18. The majority is
NOT always right

22. 35: Lack of
understanding
privacy issues
42: Difficulty to cope
with privacy and
security issues
Does 35 worsen 42
A YES, is result of great majority
A YES is an influence relationship
support

23. Factor 47: LACK OF
USER FRIENDLINESS
Factor 9: EXISTENCE OF SOCIAL
INEQUALITIES
Factor 10: LOW EDUCATIONAL
LEVEL
Factor 30: INADEQUATE
PUBLIC PROMOTION OF
ITS IMPORTANCE
Level IV
Level III
Level II
Level I
Factor 26: FEAR OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Factor 40:TECHNO-PHOBIA, THE FEAR OF
TECHNOLOGY
Factor 7: ABSENCE
OF SPECIFIC
SERVICES ORIENTED
TO USER NEEDS
Factor 2: LACK OF
INFRASTRUCTURE
Level V
Level VI Factor 78: LACK OF OPEN DESIGN INTERFACES
Factor 24: LACK OF USER PARTICIPATION IN ICT DESIGN
Factor 41: THE TOO BIG POWER OF TECHNOLOGISTS
Factor 48: POOR
INTERFACE DESIGN
Factor 35: INADEQUATE GOVERNMENT
POLICIES ON SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC
Factor 33: WEAKNESS OF REGULATORY
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK
Factor 74:LACK OF
STANDARDIZATION OF
QUALITY ISSUES
Factor 67:SPAM
Factor 72:LACK OF THE NEED TO
DEFINE CITIZENS DIGITAL RIGHTS
Factor 4: LOW LEVEL OF DIGITAL LITERACY
Factor 36: LOW INDIVIDUAL INTEREST
ABOUT THE CONTENT AVAILABLE ON
BROADBAND
Factor 11: HIGH COST
OF SERVICE
Factor 63:
TECHNOLOGICAL
DETERMINISM
Factor 17: THE OBSTACLES FOR THE
NEW EASTERN AND CENTRAL EU
MEMBERS ARE DIFFERENT FROM
THOSE OF THE OLD MEMBERS
Factor 16: SOCIAL
RESISTANCE TO PAY THE
COSTS OF BROADBAND
TECHNOLOGY
Factor 45:MORAL PANIC
REGARDING THE
INTERNET
Factor 39: RESISTANCE TO
LEARN NEW PRACTICES
Factor 58: NON USE AS A
DELIBERATE LIFESTYLE
Factor 1: INADEQUATE DEFINITION
OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE
Factor 32: LACK OF LEGAL
FRAMEWORK ON BROADBAND
ISSUES
Factor 18: LACK OF INTEREST
Factor 82: ETHICS
Factor 29: INABILITY TO PREDICT
BENEFITS FOR INDIVIDUALS
Factor 12: LACK OF DIGITAL
CONTENT IN MOTHER
LANGUAGE
Factor 76: LACK OF
INTEROPERABILITY BETWEEN
SYSTEMS
Factor 57: TELECOM FOCUSING ON
3G, WHEREAS PEOPLE ON WIFI
Factor 52: FEAR OF BEING
WATCHED BY THE BIG EYE
Factor 15: LACK OF
COMPETENCE TOWARDS ICT
Factor 19: FEAR OF INTRUSION
AND RISK OF FALSIFICATION OF
PERSONAL DATA

24. Global Scope
• The initiative has a global scope
The UNDEF contract foresees the
involvement of more than 1000 young
change makers from across the world in a
global exercise to re-invent and re-design
systems of governance for the digital era.
• In addition to the five Structured
Democratic Dialogues, the project team
invites other global, regional, or national
initiatives to join with their own funding
and/or with funding secured jointly in order
to expand the scope to more regions and
more people.

26. Implementing Organization

27. Regions
European Initiative
Australasia Initiative
African Initiative
Middle Eastern Initiative
American Initiative
Indigenous Peoples Initiative

28. Core Participants
Key actors of the project
• 20 per Region, i.e. total >100

29. Shadow Participants
Each Core Participant must
identify 10 individuals who
meet similar criteria to
participate as Shadow
Participants, i.e. >1000

30. Peer
Empowerment
and Support
Mentors in
Digital
Communication
Strategy
Mentors in
SYSTEMS
Science

31. The Network between one Mentor and
her Core Participants

32. Each Core Participant is supported by
10 Shadow Participants

33. Liaisons
• This role is for Civil Society
or other regional or national
organizations interested to
liaison and/or organize any
related activities such as:
• Organizing local events
associated with the vision of
the project
• Organizing local and/or
theme specific Structured
Democratic Dialogues

34. Activists
This role is especially for young
or young-in-spirit activists
interested to replicate the core
activities:
• Organize local events
associated with the vision of
the project
• Organize local and/or theme
specific Structured Democratic
Dialogues

35. Project Promoters
• Many individuals, authorities and
organizations are supporting the
project in many ways:
• Placing the project logo in their
website
• Disseminating the call for
participants
• Disseminating the newsletters
• Disseminating the Project
Deliverables

36. Endorsements
• Many individuals, authorities and
organizations are endorsing the
project by placing it under their
auspices.

37. Researchers
• Researchers and scientists may join in
order to collect data and study the
process or products.

38. Policy Advisors
• Many people involved in policy commit to
promote its ideas and products in their
respective circles

39. Political Endorsement
• Individual politicians may endorse the project
and commit to promote its ideas and products
in their respective circles.

40. Science of Dialogic Design

41. From Facebook  Idea Prism
IDEAS have properties
 They are Responses to a Triggering Question
 Have a Father/mother
 Coded with a Number
 Have CONTENT
 Search for similarities: Belong to CATEGORIES
 Have short clarification
 No idea LOST (Documentation)
 Ideas GROW (when discussed)
 Search for influence of one idea on another

42.  CREATE a dialogue
 INVITE “friends”/others to join
 CONTRIBUTE ideas
 FAVOUR Ideas (like!)
 Request CLARIFICATIONS (force ideas to grow to
become more specific, to sharpen in meaning)
 Mark ideas for DELETION as irrelevant
 CLUSTER ideas (micro-clustering)
 EVALUATE ideas for importance, impact,
desirability, feasibility, short/mid/long term, Possibility
of happening without institutional support etc.
 ADOPT ideas (people supporting ideas)
Anyone can

43. The Talking Point

45. It is unethical to change a social system without the
authentic engagement of those whose lives will be
influenced by the change
If we try to change it without engaging its stakeholders
in designing it
we will fail
Let’s stop analyzing the past and consciously design our futures
laouris@futureworldscenter.org