AsteriskDAO: Womxn's Health
Decentralized organization developing a whitepaper to fund and guide research on women's non-reproductive health, filling data gaps and creating tech transfer between academia and FemTech.User Review
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Reviewed on 22 Apr 2024 01:00 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.
AsteriskDAO aims to address disparities in progressive research and funding within global women's non-reproductive health by leveraging decentralized mechanisms, such as a DAO for research funding and disease-specific data lakes, which align with DeSci's mission.
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 building a research repository, developing a licensing model for IP-NFTs, and working on disease-specific data lakes, which constitutes technological infrastructure that aligns with DeSci's common operational models.
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.
AsteriskDAO's focus on establishing disease-specific data lakes, creating a price discovery mechanism for tech transfer, and forming a DAO for research funding addresses several issues such as archaic data sharing practices, financial barriers to research, and misaligned incentives in intellectual property and patents.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
While the project appears aligned with the goals of DeSci and intends to use the grant for purposes that seem within legal boundaries, there is not enough information provided to fully determine compliance with all Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policies.