CitizenSci
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About
The problem it solves # Problems worth solving Why a citizen science protocol is needed to bridge web2 citizen science projects to web3? For citizen's participating in science: 1. Most environmental citizen science projects ends after the funding period. 2. Citizen science contributions are rarely **recognized**. 3. Citizen science contribution payments are rarely adequately organized. 4. Data contributed to citizen science projects have **very low traceability** and does not encourage practice for **open science**. 5. Taxpayer money that goes into research and the results of data collection for research are mostly **managed in a centralized manner**. 6. Taxpayer money that goes into research and the results of data collection for research are sometimes stored for **privatized purposes**.
How it's made
Challenges we ran into Unfriendly access for users: We tried to use the Pinata Account Submarine.me function, but then we discovered that it's only available to Pinata customers with a paid plan and a Dedicated Gateway. This is not very practical because our users do not need to sign in to Pinata often, so having a paid plan for the users and not hosts is not very user-friendly.