DeSci Africa
Empowering African scientists through decentralized science; creating, curating educational content; supporting conferences; striving for widespread DeSci adoption and community growth.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:37 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 Africa aims to empower scientists across the continent with decentralized scientific practices, creating educational content and community events that promote 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 focuses on educating and spreading awareness about decentralized science in Africa, which involves recruiting scientists to the DeSci movement and potentially leveraging existing infrastructure. This educational outreach is a key component of the mission's support.
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.
DeSci Africa addresses various issues pertinent to the DeSci mission by creating accessible educational resources and fostering a community that has the potential to overcome financial, linguistic, and academic barriers to inclusive research.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without specific information regarding the project's compliance with the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy, it is not possible to definitively assess this criterion.