DeSci Youths
Project Summary: Implement decentralized and regenerative science practices to cultivate a new generation of scientists in Africa and foster digital wellbeing through impact projects focused on healing Earth.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:36 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 Youths aims to introduce the philosophies of decentralized and regenerative science to the younger generation, facilitating open and collaborative science projects, which aligns with the DeSci mission of innovating scientific research in an accessible 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.
While the project does not appear to be building new infrastructure, it fulfills the educational aspect by aiming to introduce and recruit the younger generation to decentralized science, hence supporting 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 description mentions introducing philosophies of decentralized science and tackling issues such as the scientific brain drain in Africa, but it lacks specific reference to tackling challenges such as data reproducibility, publishing practices, or intellectual property reforms that are explicitly mentioned as DeSci mission issues.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without knowledge of the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy details and lack of project documentation detail such as a GitHub repository, it is not possible to comprehensively evaluate compliance with the general eligibility policy.