PlantGang
A decentralized community creating a Virtual Herbarium of scientifically accurate 3D plant models as NFTs, enabling global access, supporting research and conservation with community-driven funding.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:46 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.
PlantGang is innovating scientific research through a decentralized platform that allows for the open and inclusive contribution and dissemination of 3D scanned plant specimens. Their approach of selling NFTs for funding supports novel mechanisms for financing research.
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 is building a Virtual Herbarium platform and utilizing 3D modelling technologies, which indicates that they are developing and testing necessary technological infrastructure. Additionally, they are engaging both researchers and citizen scientists in the collection and sharing of data, thus contributing to the education and expansion of the scientific community in the DeSci 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.
PlantGang addresses several DeSci issues, such as the data sharing and archiving practices by providing a novel 3D digital platform, potential intellectual property benefits as 3D specimens are sold as NFTs, and the academic barrier by facilitating global participation, thus making research and education more inclusive. They also appear to foster community engagement in scientific endeavors.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without specific details provided on the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy, it cannot be conclusively determined if PlantGang satisfies all those requirements. It would require a thorough review of the program’s policy and PlantGang’s adherence to such.