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<p class"article-p">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.</p>
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<p class"article-p">In order to achieve our goals—ensure food safety and promote synthetic biology, we organized meetings, visits and talks with different people in our society. Through interactions with farmers, scientists, NGOs, governmental officers, food suppliers, the oil industry, and lawyers, we clarified the problem, understood related issues, collected professional information, and acquired legal knowledge.  We visited different schools in our educational system and used the tools that we developed to introduce basic concept of synthetic biology to them. We also designed questionnaires to collect their opinions and comments on our project. </p>
 
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<p class="article-p">The four main classes of organization we visited is schools, government, NGO and Industry.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>Synthetic biology is widely applied in every aspect of life, and this is why we think each age group should understand this area. A very special experience was that we went to elementary schools and kindergartens.  We developed two app games for them because we wanted them to learn synthetic biology in a fun and easy way.  Through promoting iGEM in high school, we think, next year our team can act as a leader to call for senior high students to form a senior high school league to initiate a new iGEM project. We also went to seven junior high schools even in Singapore to share the same ideas. We also presented our project to professors in the National Yang Ming University.</p>
 
<p>The place we visited: <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/teacher" style="color:#00DB00">Teacher</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/seniorhigh" style="color:#00DB00">Senior High</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/juniorhigh" style="color:#00DB00">Junior High</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/elementary" style="color:#00DB00">Elementary</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/kindergarten" style="color:#00DB00">Kindergarten</a></p>
 
<p>The place we visited: <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/teacher" style="color:#00DB00">Teacher</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/seniorhigh" style="color:#00DB00">Senior High</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/juniorhigh" style="color:#00DB00">Junior High</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/elementary" style="color:#00DB00">Elementary</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/education/kindergarten" style="color:#00DB00">Kindergarten</a></p>
 
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<p>Current governmental procedures of inspecting edible oil are time, money, and labor consuming. Even raising fines and aggravating punishments cannot efficiently prevent tainted oil from producing. As a result, we think of devising low cost ecoli biosensors to establish a new way for delating such offences, making governments have concrete evidences to trace and also enhancing the overall efficiency. However, because the uses of Ecoli have specific regulations in Taiwan laws, we have to ask for advice from people who have different specializations in their own professions such as deputy director, alderman, legislator, lawyer and so on…When actually executing the job of inspecting, we find out that there are many things that are harder to solve than we think. Standards existed in human societies cannot be changed easily or else changing them will result in disastrous consequences. From those people’s pratical and professional perspectives, we have better understandings about how to change our project to make it better fit the social situation.</p>
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<p>Because the uses of Ecoli has no specific regulations in Taiwan laws, we consulted government officers and legislators.  We were so lucky to have a long talk with the previous Deputy Director of Ministry of Health and Welfare.  They listened to our project presentation and spent time in discussing food safety issues from the perspectives of policy making and implementation.  We understood the current governmental procedures of inspecting edible oil, and realized how the work consumes time, money, and labor. Even raising fines and aggravating punishments cannot efficiently prevent tainted oil from producing. Thus, we decided to develop a low cost devise (ecoli biosensors) which can be widely used by food suppliers and thus helps the government detect and solve the problem more efficiently.</p>
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<p>Visiting these professional people, we understand more about the government’s work and policy.  The problem is more complicated and complexed than we realize. Standards existed in human societies cannot be changed easily or else changing them will result in disastrous consequences. From those people’s practical and professional perspectives, we have better understandings about how to change our project to make it better fit the social situation.</p>
 
<p>The place we visited: <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/government/legislators" style="color:#00DB00">Legislators</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/government/mohaw" style="color:#00DB00">Ministry of Health and Welfare</a></p>
 
<p>The place we visited: <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/government/legislators" style="color:#00DB00">Legislators</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/government/mohaw" style="color:#00DB00">Ministry of Health and Welfare</a></p>
 
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<p>We visited John Tung Foundation which is famous in Taiwan. They contributed to food safety and tobacco hazards prevention very much. Through understanding their working process: striving for approval, lawmaking and promotion which resemble with our human practice, we exchanged our thoughts with them to help us grow up. They have a different opinion with us about our project. They thought we can not only give the consumers biosensors but also give them to the producers. If we check on oil in upstream companies, we can save time and money in investigating and seizing downstream. Non-government organizations are more considerable than government, but they met much challenges on their way to success. How to overcome the strait is what we learned in this time conference and it also is what we can use in iGEM.</p>
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<p>We visited John Tung Foundation which is a well-known NGO in Taiwan. They have great contributions to food safety and tobacco hazards prevention. They introduced to us their work: striving for approval, lawmaking and promotion. Their presentation helps us know more about social issues in our daily life. They also gave us great suggestions, including selling biosensors to both consumers, food suppliers and oil producers. If we check on oil in upstream companies, we can save time and money in investigating and seizing downstream. Non-government organizations are more considerable than government, but they met much challenges on their way to success. We learned their aggressive and optimistic attitude in their work, which is a positive to our team. </p>
 
<p>The place we visited: <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/ngo" style="color:#00DB00">The John Tung Foundation</a></p>
 
<p>The place we visited: <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/ngo" style="color:#00DB00">The John Tung Foundation</a></p>
 
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>We interviewed 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. In order to know whether the final product be popularly used, we visited the biotech companies to look for their business advices.</p>
 
<p>The place we visited: <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/industry/vendors" style="color:#00DB00">Vendors</a></p>
 
<p>The place we visited: <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/industry/vendors" style="color:#00DB00">Vendors</a></p>
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<p>We visited a law firm and consulted a Juris Doctor.  She organized a team to provide us detailed information in regulations and policies related to oil, food safety, and synthetic biology.  She also prepared many pieces court judgements related to food safety.  They are very efficient and professional in answering our questions.  Their provision of documents enrich our background knowledge related to our iGEM project. </p>
 
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      <p>we developed materials:<a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/material/app" style="color:#00DB00">APP</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/material/ppt" style="color:#00DB00">PPT</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/material/video" style="color:#00DB00">Video</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/material/poster" style="color:#00DB00">Poster</a>, <a href="https://2015.igem.org/Team:HSNU-TAIPEI/hp/material/questionnaires" style="color:#00DB00">Questionnaires</a></p>
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Revision as of 07:34, 17 September 2015

Human PracticeOverview

In order to achieve our goals—ensure food safety and promote synthetic biology, we organized meetings, visits and talks with different people in our society. Through interactions with farmers, scientists, NGOs, governmental officers, food suppliers, the oil industry, and lawyers, we clarified the problem, understood related issues, collected professional information, and acquired legal knowledge. We visited different schools in our educational system and used the tools that we developed to introduce basic concept of synthetic biology to them. We also designed questionnaires to collect their opinions and comments on our project.

Organization

The five main types of organization we visited is schools, government, NGO, food industry, Law firms.

Education

Synthetic biology is widely applied in every aspect of life, and this is why we think each age group should understand this area. A very special experience was that we went to elementary schools and kindergartens. We developed two app games for them because we wanted them to learn synthetic biology in a fun and easy way. Through promoting iGEM in high school, we think, next year our team can act as a leader to call for senior high students to form a senior high school league to initiate a new iGEM project. We also went to seven junior high schools even in Singapore to share the same ideas. We also presented our project to professors in the National Yang Ming University.

The place we visited: Teacher, Senior High, Junior High, Elementary, Kindergarten

Government: governmental officers and legislators

Because the uses of Ecoli has no specific regulations in Taiwan laws, we consulted government officers and legislators. We were so lucky to have a long talk with the previous Deputy Director of Ministry of Health and Welfare. They listened to our project presentation and spent time in discussing food safety issues from the perspectives of policy making and implementation. We understood the current governmental procedures of inspecting edible oil, and realized how the work consumes time, money, and labor. Even raising fines and aggravating punishments cannot efficiently prevent tainted oil from producing. Thus, we decided to develop a low cost devise (ecoli biosensors) which can be widely used by food suppliers and thus helps the government detect and solve the problem more efficiently.

Visiting these professional people, we understand more about the government’s work and policy. The problem is more complicated and complexed than we realize. Standards existed in human societies cannot be changed easily or else changing them will result in disastrous consequences. From those people’s practical and professional perspectives, we have better understandings about how to change our project to make it better fit the social situation.

The place we visited: Legislators, Ministry of Health and Welfare

NGO

We visited John Tung Foundation which is a well-known NGO in Taiwan. They have great contributions to food safety and tobacco hazards prevention. They introduced to us their work: striving for approval, lawmaking and promotion. Their presentation helps us know more about social issues in our daily life. They also gave us great suggestions, including selling biosensors to both consumers, food suppliers and oil producers. If we check on oil in upstream companies, we can save time and money in investigating and seizing downstream. Non-government organizations are more considerable than government, but they met much challenges on their way to success. We learned their aggressive and optimistic attitude in their work, which is a positive to our team.

The place we visited: The John Tung Foundation

Industry

We interviewed 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. In order to know whether the final product be popularly used, we visited the biotech companies to look for their business advices.

The place we visited: Vendors

Lawyer

We visited a law firm and consulted a Juris Doctor. She organized a team to provide us detailed information in regulations and policies related to oil, food safety, and synthetic biology. She also prepared many pieces court judgements related to food safety. They are very efficient and professional in answering our questions. Their provision of documents enrich our background knowledge related to our iGEM project.

Material

In order to facilitate our activities and enhance communications

we developed materials:APP, PPT, Video, Poster, Questionnaires

  1. We developed interesting APPs for little children in kindergarten and elementary schools to introduce them the concept of synthetic biology.
  2. We prepared PPTs, videos, and posters to present our project to the others to help them understand our work.
  3. We also designed questionnaires to collect their valuable opinion, comments and suggestions.

Cooperation

In addition to telling other people our thought, exchange the ideas and information is also important, so we participated in two activities to obtain others' experience and learn from one another.

The two activities we took part in: Meet Up, Asian Conference

Community

We used Fan Page to dialogue with the community.

Our Fan page: Fans Page

Lawyer

Lawyer we visited: Lawyer