Team:CSMU NCHU Taiwan/test ver87
-Integrated Human Practices-
A Novel Protocol with Reflexivity, Anticipation, Inclusion, Responsiveness
Our team is incorporating dimensions of responsible innovation- Anticipation, Reflexivity, Inclusion and Responsiveness into a protocol we created for us and future iGEM teams. Integrated human practice is about addressing concerns for ethics, sustainability, social justice, environmental impact, governance and intellectual property rights. We decided to use the dimensions of responsible innovation along with these different aspects to create a protocol for iGEM teams to reflect and act upon.
Why We Adapted It?
Extremely versatile protocol as RRI Toolkit is, sometimes it suffers from an implementation gap, leads to societal controversies or fail to answer societal needs. For instance, iGEM is a very distinctive competition. There are many important issues every team has to demonstrate that they have investigated, addressed and integrated them into the design of their project, such as ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, environmental impact, or intellectual property rights. However, the original RRI Toolkit is failed to cover all these issues. On top of that, each iGEM team is focusing on a specific field, which varies from foundational genetic research to applied technologies. It means that they have different issues to be taken into consideration. Thus, we modified RRI Toolkit to become a special format which is involved the values of human practices in iGEM competition. Future teams can conveniently make good use of the modification to evaluated on whether they completely take all conditions that their project may influence into account or not.
Our series of questions on based on the main ideas shown in figure 1 and 2, including the four dimensions- anticipation, inclusion, reflexivity and responsiveness, the idea of 3Ps, and different aspects involved in these concepts.
3Ps- Product, Process, Purpose
RRI Toolket for iGEM teams
Plan and Evolution
By means of Modified RRI Toolkit for iGEM teams, we had designed a precise plan with clear goals, formally taking into consideration the impact of our project “AFLATOXOUT” on the public. Here were several key words in the plan, in order to seek advice outside the lab, and then fill in the blanks in RRI Toolkit. See more details on how our project was evolved because of this plan in the HP-Silver and Gold_Integrated page.
Public Engagement :
The government ( health bureau, legislators, etc.), the professional bodies( GRAS Food-grade Hetrologous Protein Production forum, Food Industry Research and Development Institute ) ,and the industries( Sinphar group, TABP INC.).
Open Access :
Detailed protocol and parts registry for future iGEM teams, APP on our Github.
Science Education :
Students in elementary school, high school, and college.
Governance :
Consulting with famous star-up teams in TRANS conference and other iGEM teams in Asia-Pacific iGEM Conference.
Ethics :
FIRDI, Good Liver Foundation.
1. Owen, R., Stilgoe, J., Macnaghten, P., Gorman, M., Fisher, E., & Guston, D. (2013). A Framework for Responsible Innovation. Responsible Innovation, 27-50. doi:10.1002/9781118551424.ch2
2. Caixa, F. L. (n.d.). RRI Tools. Retrieved October 13, 2017, from https://www.rri-tools.eu/self-reflection-tool
