OpenDenzent
Decentralized platform OpenDenzent uses blockchain to directly connect donors with researchers, ensuring transaction transparency, secure funding, and progress updates.User Review
AI Review
A1
Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:45 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.
OpenDenzent is designed to connect researchers and donors directly using blockchain technology, which supports the DeSci mission by providing a novel mechanism for funding scientific research in a transparent and 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.
OpenDenzent is building a decentralized platform that enables direct connections and transactions between researchers and donors, effectively deploying and testing the necessary technological infrastructure within a 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.
While OpenDenzent appears to address traditional funding model issues and transparency, it is not explicitly stated how the project addresses data reproducibility or the misaligned incentives in scientific publishing, hence the 'Uncertain' score.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
The provided information does not specify whether OpenDenzent satisfies the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy; therefore an assessment cannot be made without further information.