DeSci Japan Youth
Launching Japan's first DeSci community for students, focusing on democratizing science access, and fostering student-driven research through interviews, pitch contests, and a hackathon.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 06:00 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.
DeSci Japan Youth aims to expand the DeSci approach and solve problems faced by student researchers, which aligns with the mission's emphasis on openness and accessibility in scientific innovation.
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 includes activities like hosting student pitch contests and hackathons, which can deploy DeSci principles and educate participants about decentralized science, contributing to the mission through community engagement and practical experimentation.
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 description does not provide specific details on how it will address these concrete issues, such as data reproducibility or publishing practices. While the initiatives could potentially tackle such challenges, the explicit connection to these examples is not clearly articulated.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without information on the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy or details about the project's compliance with such, it is not possible to determine whether DeSci Japan Youth satisfies the policy.