Spacerox DAO: Building Space as a Common Good
Spacerox DAO is a web3-based funding and incubation platform promoting sustainable, trustless space industry operations, seeking grant support to expand its impact.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:47 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.
Spacerox DAO's project aligns with the mission of DeSci by proposing a decentralized funding and incubation platform for space sector projects. The use of Web3 infrastructure for funding, taking ownership via NFTs, and incentivizing sustainable practice through smart contracts support open and accessible science.
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 enhancing the development of public goods, open-source tools, and research, necessary for a decentralized space infrastructure, which is in line with testing and deploying necessary technological infrastructure and educational initiatives within the DeSci framework.
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.
While Spacerox DAO is aligned with some DeSci goals, specifically in sustainable practices and open contribution, it is not clear how the project would address specific issues such as the data reproducibility crisis, science/health literacy, and other concrete barriers listed by DeSci.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Assessment cannot be made from the provided information regarding compliance with Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy. Further investigation into the specific guidelines of the program and the project's alignment with those guidelines would be required.