Change

the world

Change

Education

Yiannis Laouris

1. Do we all agree that we

should change Education?

2. Do we all know what

Education we envision?

ReinventDemocracy.info

Engaging >1000 young leaders in

global activism

Global Education Futures Moscow:

29 Feb – 2 Mar 2016

• Increase youth participation and

collaboration in decision making processes

• Empower young people invent innovative

actions to reinvent democracy

Key Objective

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

The voice of the crowd??

COMPUTATIONAL AGE MAKES POSSIBLE

Direct Democracy is a threat

Direct, real-time participation in

deliberations AND also in

decisions

The majority is

NOT always right

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

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 VIFactor 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

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.

Implementing Organization

Regions

European Initiative

Australasia Initiative

African Initiative

Middle Eastern Initiative

American Initiative

Indigenous Peoples Initiative

Core Participants

Key actors of the project

• 20 per Region, i.e. total >100

Shadow Participants

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

Peer

Empowerment

and Support

Mentors in

Digital

Communication

Strategy

Mentors in

SYSTEMS

Science

The Network between one Mentor and her Core Participants

Each Core Participant is supported by

10 Shadow Participants

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

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

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

Endorsements

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

Researchers

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

Policy Advisors

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

Political Endorsement

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

Science of Dialogic Design

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

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

The Talking Point

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