DeScicommons.org: This time we will fix science
Launching DeSci Commons to revolutionize scientific research through collaboration, transparency, and concrete principles. Empowering global cooperation with guidelines for effective, reproducible, and innovative science practices.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:26 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.
DeScicommons.org aims to facilitate collaboration and set guiding principles for scientific research, aligning with the DeSci mission of innovating scientific research through open, inclusive practices.
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 proposes to build a new infrastructure that serves related DeSci purposes and it involves the community in creating guidelines that can structure the DeSci ecosystem.
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.
Although not directly addressing all of the listed issues, DeScicommons.org does seem to broadly engage with the themes of improving data sharing practices and aligning incentives within scientific research.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without information on their compliance with the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy, it is not possible to determine with certainty whether they meet all the necessary conditions of this policy.