Just One Giant Lab (JOGL), a community-powered problem solving platform, announces new features

Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) is developing a virtual laboratory where users can collaborate and innovate in order to solve problems that address the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As our Co-founder Leo Blondel described it in a recent interview for the Creative Commons: “We want to be a central hub for open science and innovation. On the social side, we aim to help humanity fix its most urgent and important problems using open science, responsible innovation, and continuous learning. To that end, we partner with academic labs, companies, startups, foundations, NGOs, and public services to create participatory research programs for understanding and solving health, environmental, social, and humanitarian issues”

“On the technical side, we create and utilize a series of open-source applications to support the research and innovation activities generated by our users. To this aim, we have created a platform where users can launch their projects and collaborate openly with others to solve pressing needs,” he says.

JOGL’s most popular program has been the OpenCovid19 Initiative, powered by a global community of 4000+ volunteers and experts who create solutions to better prevent, detect, and treat COVID-19, and to help forecast the pandemic’s evolution, with support from the AXA Research Fund.

We recently launched two new programs with our partners:

• The iGEM 2020 program, which will foster collaboration between teams that are competing in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, one of the most developed open science communities in the world (7000 participants every year), using biotechnology to solve problems.
• JEDI — 1 billion molecules challenge, which aims to screen a billion possible molecular compounds that can block the development and/or spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19.

On July 8th, we celebrated one year of open science with JOGL and announced new features that will improve our users’ experience! Check out our video below and join us at https://jogl.io/

New Features of JOGL

Hear our CTO Leo Blondel announcing the new features:

Here is a short summary:

Here are some of the main new features:

• Introducing on-site notifications! Access them through the menu and manage them on the settings page.
• Better management of notifications: choose which ones you want to receive, and choose between receiving on-site and/or email notifications.
• You can now save objects, and view them all via your user dropdown menu.
• You now have quick access to your objects (the ones you’re admin of, and the ones you’re a member of), via your user dropdown menu.
• New program page! Refreshed design, and a program now has a logo. Better display of information. New components such as: carousel of objects, FAQs, resources, boards, external links, meeting info, supporters, contact email…
• New navbar menu for mobile devices.
• You can filter a program’s needs, participants and projects, per challenge.
• To follow an object, you now have a bell icon next to the object’s title, instead of a button.
• You can now add external links (such as social media channels or websites) to programs, projects and groups.
• Introduced a new way to display a challenge’s status advancement, displayed on small challenge cards and on challenge’s header.
• On a project edit page, users can now see which challenge(s) the project is participating in, which are pending, and they can cancel participation to any of them, at any time.
• You can now share a post!
• A faster website overall!

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