Mini Meadows
Urban biodiversity project using native wildflowers to create "Mini Meadows," boosting pollinators, soil health, and urban green spaces, plus promoting community engagement and climate action.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:44 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.
The Mini Meadows project seeks to decentralize biodiversity and supports the DeSci mission by providing a low-cost, community-driven approach to climate and biodiversity 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.
Although not explicitly technological, the Mini Meadows project deploys a grassroot methodology with an educational component, thus contributing to the mission by recruiting and possibly educating the community on decentralized science practices.
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 Mini Meadows project addresses some aspects related to global inclusion and community engagement in science, but it does not directly address the data reproducibility crisis, scientific publishing, or peer review practices. The proposal does not mention the sharing of data or findings in an open or decentralized manner.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without specific knowledge of the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy or the full details of the Mini Meadows project's governance and compliance status, it is not possible to definitively score their eligibility under this criterion.