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.User Review
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Reviewed on 22 Apr 2024 09:03 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.
DeSci Tokyo aims to be a DeSci incubator in Japan, hosting meetups, writing articles, and establishing funding systems based on QF—activities that align with DeSci's mission to innovate scientific research through novel mechanisms.
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 is developing a Quadratic Funding system for public goods, including open science projects, and hosting conferences to recruit and educate the scientific community, thereby supporting the mission through both infrastructure and community building.
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.
DeSci Tokyo addresses several of these issues by proposing new systems for peer reviewing and funding to combat poor practices in scientific publishing, creating an ecosystem for liquidating data and IP, and acting as a hub for decentralized science to address academic disconnect and literacy.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
There is not enough information provided to determine if the project satisfies the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy; further investigation into the project's compliance with those policies is needed.