DeSci Round Operators
Incentivizing DeSci GG20 round contributors through the third decentralized science funding on Gitcoin, coordinated by a team of five DeSci leaders and reviewed by five community-elected stewards.User Review
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A1
Reviewed on 19 Apr 2024 10:02 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.
The project 'DeSci Round Operators' directly aligns with the mission of DeSci by managing a funding round intended to support decentralized science. Their aim to foster innovation and collaboration within the DeSci community and incentivize DeSci operators and stewards supports novel mechanisms of funding and conducting scientific research.
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 there is no mention of building or testing new technological infrastructure, 'DeSci Round Operators' project contributes to the deployment of existing DeSci infrastructure by organizing a Gitcoin Grants round for DeSci projects. They also appear to be involved in educating and recruiting members of the scientific community as suggested by their leadership role and coordination of the round.
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.
There is insufficient information in the provided project description to determine if 'DeSci Round Operators' addresses the specific issues listed in this criterion, such as data sharing practices, publishing, peer review, or inclusivity barriers in research. The primary focus is on organizing quadratic funding rounds, which may indirectly address some of these issues, but the direct impact on these concrete examples is not evident from the description.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
There is no reason given in the provided project description to believe that 'DeSci Round Operators' does not comply with the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy. However, the final score depends on further due diligence by Gitcoin admins to check that no exclusion criteria are met (e.g., Sybil attacks, community manipulation).