BIOrbit
Decentralized, blockchain-based satellite monitoring platform for global conservation, aiming to fight deforestation and climate change with a public API for data access and analysis.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:34 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.
BIOrbit aims to create a decentralized platform for sustainable environmental management and deforestation monitoring using satellite imagery and blockchain technology, which aligns with the mission to innovate scientific research in an open 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.
BIOrbit is developing an API to enable access to satellite data transformed into a matrix format for easier querying, which suggests that they are building and will test technological infrastructure to support the DeSci mission.
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's description indicates it will address data sharing practices and global inclusivity by providing universal access and transparency to satellite monitoring data, which is relevant to issues like the data reproducibility crisis and academic barriers.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without additional information about the compliance of BIOrbit with Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy, it is not possible to determine whether the project meets all general eligibility requirements.