Future Folklore
Future Folklore is a community supporting impossible dreams across fields, funding UAP research through NFT art auctions, promoting global science collaboration, and creating commercial IP for public and economic benefit.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.
Future Folklore supports the DeSci mission by funding frontier science through novel methods such as NFT art auctions and by fostering a highly participatory global science community.
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 description does not specify whether they are building new technological infrastructure, deploying existing infrastructure, or educating and recruiting the scientific community, but they mention the intent to use the philosophy and technology of DeSci.
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 addresses issues of underfunding and stigma in scientific research, implying a contribution to removing barriers to inclusive research and addressing misaligned incentives by the creation of commercial IP and public knowledge through IP-NFTs.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without access to the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy and more specific information on the project's compliance, the assessment cannot be conclusively made. The project's past participation in a Gitcoin grants round may indicate previous compliance, but current standing is unknown.