Opscientia: Decentralised Open Science Stack

Project info

Title:

Project lead:

Sarah Hamburg, AKA @shamburgularara Shady El Damaty, AKA @seldamat

UTC + 1

Description:

Opscientia is a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) aiming to catalyse the pace of scientific discovery — starting with Neuroscience. Today, progress is limited by centralised systems built on outdated infrastructure. This restricts global access to study participation, research funding, scientific collaboration and knowledge creation. Participants also do not retain ownership or control over their own data. Our solution is a decentralised open science stack leveraging blockchain technologies. Global citizens are empowered to take part in studies whilst retaining full ownership and control over their data, and scientists are incentivised to share data and collaborate with their peers. Our solution empowers both citizens and scientists to become the new shareholders of scientific progress.

Link to project:

https://github.com/opscientia/desci

Mattermost handle:

Sarah: sarahh Shady: seldamat

Goals for the OHBM Brainhack

Goal 1:

Gather feedback from the Neuroscience community on Opscientia's vision and solution
Use this feedback to inform our overall strategy and roadmap

Goal 2:

Gather specific user feedback on our Decentralised Science Stack wireframe (Open Science Bay)
From this generate user personas and requirements for our stack and refine UX

Goal 3:

Kick off our community of Neuroscientists!

Good first issues:

Create a protocol for 1:1 user research interviews with Neuroscientists from the HBM community
Complete 5 user research interviews
Create an online questionnaire to gather feedback from the wider Neuroscience community

Skills:

User research, user experience, questionnaire design, community building

Chat channel:

hbm-opscientia

Image for the OHBM brainhack website

Twitter-size summary

Catalysing the pace of scientific discovery with a decentralised open science stack that democratises and modernises research pipelines, and empowers citizens and scientists to become the new shareholders of scientific progress.

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