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What is Opscientia?
We’re a community of open science activists, researchers, organisers and enthusiasts that have come together to work on the problems of data sharing, reproducibility, incentive alignment, coordination, and intellectual ownership that plague knowledge creation today.
Together, we’re building a scientific ecosystem that unlocks data silos, coordinates collaboration and democratises funding. Our long-term vision is to create a global network of automated knowledge foundries, where scientists and AI co-create new knowledge.
Science is Broken
Did you know that less than 10% of data collected by publicly funded research in the US is published alongside their papers? Or that an average 70% of researchers have failed to replicate their colleagues’ work across disciplines, including Physics, Biology and Psychology? A hyper competitive culture in academia precludes collaboration while existential challenges require immediate scientific solutions.
Digital Services Enhance Disparity
Modern scientific insights are typically generated by an exclusive community of researchers working at institutions with proprietary instruments, siloed data, and specialized infrastructure. This status quo has remained undisturbed for decades, further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic which has enhanced the disparity of access to instruments of information-gathering, coordination, commerce, and knowledge-sharing.
Decentralised Data Fabric
The Opsci ecosystem is powered by the Decentralised Science (DeSci) Stack, a Web3 software development kit linking decentralised finance with data markets, privacy-preserving cloud services, and the power of smart contracts to coordinate global citizen science communities together around a collectively determined incentive structure.
A Web3-powered open science ecosystem that unlocks data silos, coordinates collaboration and democratises funding
Who are we?
Shady
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Shady El Damaty, Ph.D. is an avid advocate for open science to promote the synthesis of human creativity, artistic expression, and powers of observation with tools for automation to supercharge the spirit of discovery and innovation. He founded Opscientia, to achieve this vision, and building on 10 years of methods development and digital infrastructure for big data neuroscience research.
Miri
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Miri Rossitto is the CEO of COWE Communications and is Opscientia’s brand management strategist from the U.S. with 10 years of experience consulting and advising successful start-ups.
Akshata
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Akshata is OpSci’s Open Web Fellow leading development on v-scholar – a library for permanent archival of research papers.
Kinshuk
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Kinshuk Kashyap, is Opscientia’s Google Summer of Code Fellow from India, who was awarded a competitive summer fellowship to contribute to the DeSci Stack.
Achintya
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Achintya Kumar, is Opscientia’s Open Web Fellow from India, who is applying his web development skills to build the DeSci Stack.
Jakub
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Jakub is a Natural Sciences student interested in artificial intelligence and neuroscience research. He is excited about the decentralization of science and is currently working on simulations of DeSci token communities.
Dan
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Daniel Byington, M.Sc., is a business development specialist from the U.S. with a rich background in market and scientific research for pharmaceutical drug development.
Caleb
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Caleb Tuttle is a software developer and Web3 enthusiast.
Q: What is #DeSci
A: DeSci is a nascent web-native movement seeking to deploy scientific applications on decentralized internet protocols that are autonomous and community owned.