LunCo: Everyone Can Do Space
LunCo integrates Space & Robotics models into a collaborative virtual world for concurrent engineering, featuring educational play-to-learn modes and a social platform for sharing designs with IP-NFTs.User Review
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Reviewed on 19 Apr 2024 01:02 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.
LunCo integrates web3 to create opensource space missions, facilitating engineering knowledge sharing and lowering barriers to access, which aligns with the DeSci mission of innovating scientific research in an inclusive manner.
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.
LunCo is building a virtual world integrating space and robotics models, which can be seen as creating new technological infrastructure for collaborative engineering, and it includes an educational mode for student onboarding into space engineering and web3. This suggests LunCo supports DeSci's mission by creating infrastructure and fostering community involvement.
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.
Though LunCo promotes open engineering knowledge sharing using web3 technology and may address data sharing practices, it is not clear from the description provided how the project directly addresses issues like data reproducibility, scientific publishing, and peer review practices, or the broader scope of the DeSci mission examples provided.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without specific details on the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy and how the project complies with it, a definitive assessment cannot be made. Further information would be required to ensure all aspects of the policy are met by LunCo.