Blaming is more easy while find out the solution of something is more hard. We sought for many aspect like political, governmental or NGO's aspect. By doing so, we can know their opinions of food sandals and find out the way of solving it with to the best of our ability. Also in order to promote the Synthetic Biology, we've been to various levels schools and teach them the principle of the Synthetic Biology. Let everybody know it is an amazing and useful subject.
Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/overview
Human PracticeOverview
Organization
The four main classes of organization we visited is schools, government, NGO and Industry.
Education
Synthetic biology is widely applied in every aspect of life, and this is why we think each age group should have some degree of understanding in this area. We consider to call for senior high students to form a senior high school league to solve the problem in the future. We also went to seven junior high schools even in Singapore to share the same ideas. More different is that we even been to elementary school and kindergarten. We produced two app games for them because we want them to use an easy way to know the synthetic biology is a amazing subject.
The place we visited: Senior High, Junior High, Elementary, Kindergarten
Government
Current testing system costs money and time. Raising penalties and increasing the fines of penalties can't hold back producing the recycled oil. Therefore, we want to establish a system with biosensor so that the government.
The place we visited: Legislators, Ministry of Health and Welfare
NGO
我們拜訪了台灣有名的董氏基金會，他們在食安、菸害防治等方面皆有許多貢獻，透過了解他們的運作方式:爭取認同、立法、推廣，與我們Human Practice類似，所以我們想與他們交換想法，以他們的經驗來幫助我們成長。對於我們的project，他們提出了與我們不同的想法，原先我們只有讓民眾可以擁有生物檢測器，基金會認為不一定要以消費者的角度著手，也可以讓廠商自行先行檢驗，若從源頭把關則下游可以減少多餘的稽查。非政府組織考量比政府周全，但遭遇的困難卻是最多的，如何克服困難是我們從交流中學到的，也是我們可以運用在iGEM上的。
The place we visited: The John Tung Foundation
Industry
We interviewed the basic of the society, the vendors. By interviewing them, we knew that the cost of testing oil is too high so that many vendors in Taiwan can't afford it. And we also visited some food companies to know the effect of the food scandals. We also visited some commercial companies to promote the philosophy of our project. Let more people know this subject. Last, in order to know whether the final product can be popularized to each person, we visited the biotech companies to look for some advices.
The place we visited: Vendors