DeSci Tokyo

DeSci Tokyo

A Tokyo-based volunteer organization advocating decentralized science with three meetups, scholarly articles, and a major conference, seeks support for a 2024 DeSci conference and a funding experiment in Japan.
Application
Applied on: 11 Aug 2024 06:49 AM
Approved
User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 11 Aug 2024 07:00 AM
The project should fall under the category of Decentralized Science. (https://ethereum.org/en/desci/)
DeSci Tokyo aims to address challenges in the scientific community through decentralized methods, aligning with the principles of Decentralized Science.
The project should aim to build public infrastructure for funding, creating, reviewing, crediting, storing, and/or disseminating scientific knowledge (either by orgnizing conferences, meetings, workshops and/or hackathons then contributing to onboard scientists into the blockchain ecosystem) fairly and equitably using the Web3 stack.
DeSci Tokyo organizes conferences and has projects like Dig DAO Matching Donation, which use innovative decentralized funding models like Quadratic Funding.
The project should be able to clearly articulate its goals and objectives.
DeSci Tokyo clearly outlines its goal to tackle issues like declining research quality in Japan and its objective to decentralize governance, infrastructure, and ecosystems in science.
The project must have a clear and well-defined problem statement, as well as a plan for addressing the problem.
The project identifies problems within the Japanese science ecosystem and provides planned initiatives like conferences, publications, and innovative funding models to address these issues.
The project must have a clear roadmap and timeline for implementation, with achievable goals.
The project has a detailed roadmap, including meetups, conferences, and a whitepaper release planned by mid-2025.
The project should be open-source and collaborative in nature.
The project does not explicitly mention being open-source, and the provided information does not clarify this aspect.
The project must be able to provide regular updates on its progress to the Gitcoin community.
DeSci Tokyo has shown its ability to publish articles and updates, demonstrating its capability to provide regular progress reports.