OpenCann
OpenCann is a community-driven initiative fostering open-source data sharing to advance cannabis research and facilitate collaboration through a decentralized science platform.User Review
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Reviewed on 25 Apr 2024 06:01 AM
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.
OpenCann addresses the mission of DeSci by creating infrastructure for data sharing and leveraging decentralized principles to foster collaboration and open access in cannabis research.
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 proposes the use of web3 technologies to build a decentralized data marketplace and a community-governed platform for cannabis research, which aligns with the efforts of building and deploying DeSci infrastructure.
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.
OpenCann is poised to address several issues such as arduous data-sharing practices and barriers to inclusive research by democratizing access to cannabis research data and prioritizing open-access principles.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
Without direct access to Gitcoin's General Eligibility Policy documentation and the details of OpenCann's internal policies, we cannot definitively determine compliance, though there is no indication of non-compliance in the provided information.