Guardian
Decentralized network using Raspberry Pi and sensors for real-time air quality and seismic monitoring to improve community health and safety.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:30 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.
Guardian leverages a decentralized network for environmental monitoring, which aligns with the mission of DeSci by utilizing an open and inclusive platform for conducting and disseminating scientific research.
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.
Guardian is building and implementing a technological infrastructure using IoT, Raspberry Pi, and real-time data streaming through Streamr, which indicates deployment of DesCi infrastructure in the environmental monitoring context.
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.
Guardian's approach to environmental data collection and sharing with real-time access and decentralized nodes addresses the problems of data reproducibility and outdated data sharing practices, which are issues highlighted in the DeSci mission.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Based on the provided information, it is unclear whether the Guardian project meets all the specific Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy requirements as these policies are not detailed in the information provided.