Salaries Science
Create a decentralized grant system for basic science and software projects, ensuring proper funding and visibility while improving peer review through donor participation, using DFINITY Internet Computer and a browser extension.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:07 PM
Projects should directly support the mission of DeSci to innovate scientific research by exploring novel mechanisms of funding, conducting, and disseminating scientific research in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner.
The 'Salaries Science' project aims to introduce a new model for funding scientific research by allocating a portion of each donation to dependencies and citations. This mechanism supports the DeSci mission by attempting to address the issues of misaligned incentives in scientific funding and providing a unique support system for 'invisible' projects and free software components crucial for scientific development.
DeSci projects most commonly support this mission by building and testing necessary technological infrastructure, but projects may also be eligible if they are deploying existing DeSci infrastructure in a scientific research context or if they are educating and recruiting members of the scientific community to contribute to the mission.
The project proposes to build a technological infrastructure consisting of grants similar to Gitcoin Grants, a distributed database (NacDB), and a browser extension for making donations. It also involves a peer review mechanism which implies the continuation of building upon existing DeSci platforms. Furthermore, this infrastructure could potentially educate and recruit more scientific community members by demonstrating an alternative to traditional funding and publication models.
Concrete examples of issues covered by the DeSci mission include: the data reproducibility crisis and archaic data sharing practices; misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review; financial, linguistic, and academic barriers to globally inclusive research; intellectual property, patents, and financial incentives to trade progress for profits; academic disconnect and poor science/health literacy and trust in the lay public and government representatives.
'Salaries Science' addresses several DeSci mission issues: It tackles misaligned incentives with a new funding distribution model that values dependencies and citations. The project also aims to improve scientific publishing and peer review by introducing a democratized peer review mechanism based on donor participation, potentially impacting the data reproducibility crisis by ensuring vital but underfunded projects receive attention.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
While the 'Salaries Science' project aligns with the spirit of the Gitcoin Program, there is insufficient provided information to assess whether all aspects of the General Eligibility Policy are met such as legal compliance, ethical integrity, and adherence to anti-fraud measures. A thorough review of the project's compliance with these general policies is required to determine eligibility.