Salaries Science
Create a decentralized grant system for basic science and software projects, ensuring proper funding and visibility while improving peer review through donor participation, using DFINITY Internet Computer and a browser extension.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 06:01 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 proposes a funding model that allocates donations to dependencies and citations, supporting underfunded projects and free software components, aligning well with DeSci's mission of innovating scientific research mechanisms in an inclusive manner.
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 endeavors to create grants similar to Gitcoin's and plans to use the DFINITY Internet Computer for operation, suggesting they're building necessary infrastructure, and discussing the deployment of a browser extension indicates they're testing in a scientific 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.
The project addresses the misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review by allowing for a decentralized review process post-publication. It intends to address financial barriers and support underfinanced 'invisible' projects which contribute to globally inclusive research.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
The evaluation information provided does not include specific details regarding the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy, and therefore it cannot be determined with certainty if 'Salaries Science' meets all the general eligibility criteria without further details on policy compliance.