To involve the public in our wiki, we made a survey regarding the quality of our wiki, therefore we know what the public expect. After consulting with Altariqh Dwiatmaja, an experienced UI/UX designer, he suggested us to make a user testing method targeting people that use IGEM Wiki interface. So, we asked iGEM ITB_Indonesia 2019 and IGEM Sriwijaya 2019 to give our wiki some feedback. The results are:
Figure 1. Wiki Analysis: Question 1 results
Figure 2. Wiki Analysis: Question 2 results
Figure 3. Wiki Analysis: Question 3 results
From the result of each question above, we made a conclusion that our wiki gave a good impression to the visitors. From question number 2 and number 3, we found out that overall, our content is quite understandable to other fellow iGEM teams. However, we feel that we still have to improve our wiki content and how the content is delivered to the visitors so that it can be easily understood. In this case, improving the wiki design could be a way to increase visitor comprehension about the content.
Figure 4. Wiki Analysis: Question 4 results
Some suggestions we obtain are to make our wiki mobile friendly and use videos/GIF to make our content more understandable. To make improvement from last year’s wiki, the suggestions are to remove or fill empty sections and increase our picture resolution.
How Green is Our Lab: An Assessment by Nature
We asked our wet lab division to assess the laboratory-sustainability in PRVKP Lab. The tools we use was a quiz provided by Kathryn Ramirez-Aguilar which was published on Nature website. The result for our lab is:
Podcasting
Mr. Syaqiq, one of our teachers in the Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia told us that we need to take our public engagement program to the next level, using new trend in the community, especially targeting the millennials. He suggested us to try making a podcast.
Our team got the chance to join the podcast training titled “Create a Podcast for Beginner” which given by MozBelajar (Mozilla Community Space). Therefore, we could extend and enhance our method of intervention, especially for Indonesian people who like to hear some audio information while they did another thing at the same time. That condition is proven by the statistic data that shown 80,82% of people in Indonesia is ever heard the podcast in the past six months (Rane, 2018)
After the podcast training, we know the steps, tips, and tricks to make good podcast. The summary of the meeting is available on(link). We use Buzzsprout for our podcast hosting and Spotify as our podcast directory. We named our podcast “Diphtalk” and it is available on Spotify. We use Bahasa as our main targets are Indonesian, but we will translate the podcast into English so we could accommodate listeners worldwide.
We successfully crafted one episode talking about Diphtheria in Depok. On the next episode, we will talk with:
Ummu Salamah, the leader of anti-vaxx movement, to discuss about their perspective regarding the usage of vaccine (to be aired on 26th of October);
dr. Yulia, on “Diphtheria on the Eyes of Microbiologist”, to discuss about diphtheria in both clinical and lab settings (to be aired on 27th of October)
The introduction of igem and synthetic biology with Iqbal, also answering questions from previous questionnaire we gave to freshmen.
With 150 million users of Instagram in Indonesia, we believe it could be one of our intervention segment to raise the people’s awareness and enhance their knowledge about diphtheria (Pratnyawan, 2019). Therefore, we crafted some journeys related to overviews of our iGEM project which include:
Vaccination of the pre-clinic medical students;
Gamification, in form of Bingo about the Risk-factors of diphtheria;
Transfer of knowledge between iGEM Universitas Indonesia and Imperial College London;
Direct-intervention to Indonesia care for cancer kids foundation.
Science-Exhibition
We will exhibit our diagnostic tool research project titled “How I Met Diptho” in Indonesia Science Expo 2019 as the representative of iGEM UI_Indonesia 2019 together with Universitas Indonesia, which will be held on October 26th, 2019. This event is considered as an international event and will be the threshold for another technology development invention which will improve the feasibility and quality of the current Diphtheria screening tools. Hopefully it could further prevent another Diphtheria outbreak epidemic in Indonesia and also in the world.
We will present the results of this exhibition during the Giant Jamboree.
Pilot Project for Testing Intervention Tools
Together with the social services group from Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia, we tested our tools of intervention to match it up with the public knowledge, so it can be useful and effective for educating the people. The pilot project used Hoax-pamphlet and Posters as our tools and conducted in Cipayanggu Village, Harjawana Sub-district, Lebak District, Banten Province.
Indonesia Care for Cancer Kids Foundation Intervention
Together with Buddhist Religion Group from Universitas Indonesia, we created an intervention event to the cancer children which recognized vulnerable to diseases including Diphtheria. We crafted rundown with Project Planning Matrix as our base for intervention which will include bio-synthetic storybook for children, kahoot! games for teenagers and powerpoint presentations for adults. Those events will focus on three things which are cancer-related issues, the importance of vaccination and how to tackle the hoax in general. Moreover, we also use the intervention tools that already tested in the pilot project and gave it to participants.
Dissemination at Pre-Clinic Medical Student Vaccination
We gain insights about hoaxes which pre-clinic medical students in Universitas Indonesia have heard while capturing moments about them having a Diphtheria vaccination booster. It was required to get booster before getting into the clinical phase because of the high prevalence of infectious diseases.
High-Risk Population Intervention
After getting permission from the village leader, we will do the door to door intervention which proven effective to increase the acceptance of information that we provide.
Next Generation: Engaging Freshmen to Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology is a topic that is still less commonly understood by the society. To find out how 'strange' synthetic biology is according to nonexperts’ point of view, we conducted a survey involving freshmen of Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia 2019. Before collecting their opinion about synthetic biology, we first carried out a presentation about what is iGEM in general and what project we are working for this year’s iGEM. Most of them looked enthusiastic when listening to our presentation.
Below are the results of our survey to the freshmen about synthetic biology (we got 19 respondents in total):
According to your opinion, what is synthetic biology? How closely related is it to the medical world?
Most of them answered the definition of synthetic biology correctly. They also argue that synthetic biology has a very close relationship with modern medicine, especially in therapeutic aspects. Some of them also mentioned the use of synthetic biology in medicine such as stem cells and genetic engineering
How well do you understand about synthetic biology? (1 stands for don’t understand at all, 4 stands for very understand)
From your point of view, does a medical doctor need a good understanding of synthetic biology? (1 stands for not at all, 4 stands for urgently need)
Which of the following branches of synthetic biology have you studied in High School?
Are you interested in synthetic biology? (Ya = yes, Tidak = no)
For those who choose no, we asked them about their reasons. Most of them answered that they have never been exposed to synthetic biology at all, while others said that they didn’t understand the importance of synthetic biology yet.
Is our presentation about iGEM enough to make you interested in getting to know further about synthetic biology? (1 stands for not at all, 4 stands for very interested)
From the results above, we can conclude that the freshmen’s interest in synthetic biology is actually quite high. Most of them have been able to identify the uses of synthetic biology in medicine, and they also understand that the advancement of medical technology which is assisted by synthetic biology also helps improve the quality of public health. Some people who felt less interested argue that they actually have the desire to find out more, but unfortunately, they lack the opportunity to be exposed to such topic.
Therefore, as an iGEM team members, we feel the strong urge to spread the knowledge about synthetic biology to others, hoping that the more people understand about synthetic biology, the more advanced human civilization will be.
