Decentalized Science NYC (DeSciNYC)
Community-led initiative in NYC promoting open science through monthly meetups, providing free learning resources, with future plans for partnerships and a mentorship program. Funds sought for food and cleaning.User Review
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Reviewed on 28 Apr 2024 09:02 AM
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.
Decentralized Science NYC appears to support the DeSci mission by democratizing the scientific process through community-driven events, which is an innovative approach to disseminating scientific research and fostering an inclusive community.
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.
Although DeSci NYC has not developed technological infrastructure, the project focuses on educating and recruiting members of the scientific community through events, thereby satisfying this eligibility criterion.
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.
The project supports open and collaborative gatherings, which can address the broader DeSci mission; however, it is not explicitly stated how these meetups tackle the concrete issues listed, such as data reproducibility or misaligned incentives in publishing.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
The project details do not provide enough information to fully evaluate compliance with the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy without further review of the policy and detailed project information.