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Sometimes, what we need to do to create a new system is not a complete overhaul of the existing structure but a progressive iteration that makes things better and more efficient. This is a major highlight in this issue's editorial, helping us create the right mental model of the decentralized science movement.
As the author writes, "We also proposed a mental model where DeSci is not a “next step” in the history of science, but rather an alternative to help science develop new models to do research in a meaningful way..." Dive straight into the editorial to discover more about how DeSci utilizes blockchain technology to build a more efficient and inclusive scientific ecosystem.
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Our Ecosystem Takes this week features insightful articles on DAO governance and more. Despite the challenges DAOs face with governance, it's good to see new measures being rolled out by DAOs like Nouns DAO in a bid to advance progress and make the governance system work better.
This issue is fully packed and loaded to keep you in the know about the latest developments, ensuring you stay updated with the current state of the DAOs.
Contributors: angelspeaks, Quilia, Warrior, Vi-Fi, Boluwatife, Kornekt, trewkat, siddhearta, HiroKennelly
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by Francisco Díaz, from talentDAO
Cover Art by Chameleon
In the early 2000s, a group of scientists started questioning the status quo of science and the way it was funded, executed, and how its knowledge was distributed. Those people were worried about modern science’s many flaws including lack of transparency, replication crisis, hard-to-access data, incentives that promoted quantity over quality in academic papers and, in general, pointing out the many aspects where science was being captured by journals, universities, and other centralized institutions.
This group formed a movement to promote open and transparent science, which was called Science 2.0 or Open Science (Mirowski, 2018). The promise was to create a series of practices and the development of new infrastructure supported by the introduction of the internet and information technologies. However, this movement has not been able to fix science as intended, and even though it was received with a lot of enthusiasm by researchers, institutions, and States, the scientific system keeps suffering from the same problems.
Twenty years after the emergence of open science, a new movement comes into the scene with new technological solutions and organizational frameworks. Using distributed ledger technologies like blockchain and experimenting with decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), this “web3” based movement called Decentralized Science or DeSci is consolidating as a new alternative for the scientific system.