Salaries Science
Create a grant system akin to GitCoin for underfunded science projects, incorporating a funding model that rewards early adopters and supports crucial dependencies, while leveraging DFINITY's Internet Computer to ensure direct funding to research and free software components crucial to scientific progress.User Review
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Reviewed on 16 Apr 2024 10:12 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.
Salaries Science aims to create a grant system that allocates funds to underfinanced projects and dependencies within the scientific community, which directly supports the mission of DeSci by exploring new funding 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 building NacDB, a distributed database for the grant system, and plans to use DFINITY Internet Computer, indicating that it is building and testing necessary technological infrastructure relevant to the DeSci mission.
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.
Salaries Science addresses misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing by providing grants based on dependencies and citations, which could potentially mitigate issues related to mispublication and lack of funding for certain scientific works.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
While the project appears to align with DeSci criteria, there is insufficient information provided to determine if it satisfies all aspects of the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy.