Cosmos for Humanity | C4H
Cosmos for Humanity is a Swiss NGO advocating for sustainable and equitable access to outer space, mitigating space pollution, fostering funding for researchers and startups, promoting regulatory changes for orbit protection, and developing environmental impact indicators and certifications for satellite data usage.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:24 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.
The project 'Cosmos for Humanity | C4H' aims to develop an indicator for assessing the environmental impact of space activity, seeks to fund sustainability in space research, and promotes inclusion of orbit protection in environmental objectives, all of which contribute to innovating and disseminating scientific research openly.
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.
Cosmos for Humanity is working on building technological solutions like an Outer Space Footprint (OSF) indicator and a consumer-chain for label certification, and is actively involved in education and community outreach, thus fulfilling this criterion.
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.
The project addresses the issue of archaic data sharing practices and financial barriers to research by creating a transparent, independent, traceable, and unfalsifiable certification chain for evaluating the outer space environmental impact, aligning with DeSci's mission to tackle such problems.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
The provided information is not sufficient to determine if 'Cosmos for Humanity | C4H' meets all the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy requirements.