Team:SZU-China

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Last year, our team produced a web page "corridor" for communication and cooperation between igem teams. This year, we have discovered a new problem.

In November of 2017, our team came up with a lot of ideas through brainstorming, most of which are closely related to people's lives that we thought. (bio-obesity drugs, Metarhizium, etc.)To find what the society really needs, we urgently need feedback from the public. At the first time we want to make a questionnaire, but the questionnaire has three huge defects:

1. It wastes a lot of time to produce, distribute and recycle the questionnaire.
2. We can't track the whole project process.

For example, we want to know the severity of cockroach in real life at the beginning of the project. During the project, we may also want to know which modules are better, so we need to issue the questionnaire again. At that time, it’s hard to contact with the former respondents.

3. The content is limited.

The experiment cannot be specifically introduced, so there is no way to ask some further questions.

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To solve these problems, we intend to increase communication and exchanges of the participants and create a new systematic hp platform for everyone.

We held a meetup for South China in May 2018. After the communication, we found that most teams were urgent for a platform for human practice, they expected mutual communication and required to connect with both other teams and the public. However, there is no such communication platform currently.

For the majority of scientific research fields, the lack of such a communication platform (such as synthetic biology) leads to almost one-way output of research and the public. As a result, many so-called improvements are actually no necessity in usual life. The lack of scientific knowledge of the public has expanded the communication barrier between the research team and the public, and thus a large number of scientific research results are not welcomed. What’s more, the social media is posting much pseudo-science，which causes great trouble to the public's scientific cognition.

In 2018, our team improved the corridor and developed the biocompany. It belongs not only to iGEMers, but also to everyone who is curious.

We put forward these ideas:

  • (1) With the social platform of WeChat, we create a bridge of communication between scientific research and the public, so that the scientific research work and the general public can be connected.

  • (2) We hope that the efforts of countless scientific research workers can be shown to the public, and we can get market feedback and even help when the idea is under production.

  • (3) We hope that scientific research can come into our lives, and there is a science platform filled with knowledge, fun, and accuracy...

  • (4) We hope that people can have the opportunity to participate in scientific and technological work, and create positive values for the society.

We designed a brand New app

  • It has four core competencies:
  • (1) Timely feedback
  • (2) Sense of participation
  • (3) Accompanying research
  • (4) Team promotion

In addition, it is not an ordinary app. It is a software that is installed on the chat software WeChat (a software used by almost everyone in China). Unlike previous software, you do not need to download an app, you can just use it on WeChat. This new software operation idea integrates the advantages of WeChat. While using our software, you can also chat with friends, mobile payment, purchase movie tickets, play small games and so on. It is a new-concept software that can be used regardless of the system's mobile phone.

[Note: Because it is convenient for Chinese people to use, the following videos are in Chinese, and there are international versions. ]