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(Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "By leveraging the principles of decentralized science, VinQ enables the community to analyze data from various sources and develop services and tools that support scientifically validated decision-making. \n\nThis unique approach transforms scattered private fields and individual farms, each with their own unique soil conditions and distributed across diverse microclimate zones, into a cohesive research infrastructure. This infrastructure allows for the testing and validation of new methods and tools in the field of agriculture.\n\nThe current system of funding research through grants with fixed timelines and pre-defined deliverables leads to fragmentation of knowledge and a narrow focus of research that may not align with real-world problems.\n\nVinQ's open-ended data-centric approach addresses this issue by enabling researchers to collaborate dynamically around specific problems or questions, rather than being constrained by institutional or grant boundaries.\n\nFor example, consider a complex issue like climate change modeling. Rather than being limited to data from a few well-funded research groups, VinQ could enable contributions of relevant environmental data from citizen scientists, indigenous communities with deep ecological knowledge, industry experts with specialized domain insights, and more.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1. Enabling dynamic, problem-focused research collaborations beyond institutional boundaries, as envisioned by DeSci's concept of ad-hoc research groups.\n\n2. Favoring data-centric approach rather than emphasis on metrics like authorship, citations, and affiliations.\n\n3. Open-ended approach to data collection and data analysis enables seamless collaboration across the borders of individual projects, institutions, timelines, and fixed roadmaps. \n\n4. VinQ democratizes research and knowledge creation by allowing anyone to contribute data, ideas, and insights. Traditional scientific institutions often have barriers to entry based on type of contracts, with strict credentialing requirements, gate keeping practices, and hierarchies that can exclude valuable perspectives from non-traditional or non-affiliated researchers.  \n\n5. With VinQ, the focus shifts from the credentials of the contributor to the quality and impact of the actual contribution itself. This opens up the possibility for fields of study to become more like \"test beds\" where hypotheses and theories can be rapidly explored, validated or refuted through an influx of data and perspectives from a broad range of contributors across the globe.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Setting up the test fields for studying the diseases in vineyards using local sensors and weather data as an example of distributed research across private field fully funded retroactively.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15/ Beta) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "not participated", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past DeSci grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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This demonstrates the use of AI being trained on real-world data to improve human decision-making as an advocate of Nature, rather than on human-labeled training data.\n\n![actionable intelligence](https://vin-q.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/ls-project-76-slide-1-scaled.webp)\n## How it works\n\n### Data-centric knowledge sharing\n\n1. Collaboration based on sharing of reliable data. The farmers collect data individually in their fields and indicating their priorities and personal objectives.\n\n2. Two classes are connected with AI: \n\n- **Data from Nature:** True, verifiable data reflecting the actual state (ground truth) such as microbiology, climate, soil quality, diseases, and production, which can be confirmed through fact-checking. This data represent points in a parameter space. Any changes in this data are reflected.\n\n- **Actions** The other type of data pertains to the management style inducing the changes in the state, which includes actions that affect points in a parameter space. Any treatments or fieldwork carried out to mitigate problems or improve conditions reflect the personalized style. \n\nBy utilizing AI to connect these two types of data, a governance system is established, where the user autonomously explore parameter space while AI is trained on real-world consequences thus providing the farmer a feedback on the consequences for the Nature of his actions. \n\n### Dashboard\n\n![dashboard](https://vin-q.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Picture1-scaled.webp)\n\n### Activities\n\n![permalink setting demo](https://vin-q.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-14-at-18.55.07-scaled.webp)\n\n### Previous funding:\n\nThis project has not received any centralized grants or funding. It received donations through Gitcoin rounds: Climate rounds of GC18, GC19, Metagov, Hyperdesci: $189.86 crowdfunded from 134 people\n$609.96 received from matching pools.\n\nHypercerts are minted.\n\nThe money was used to build sensors and NAYAD remote sensing online platform for prediction of downy mildew and collection of basic fields in Penedes wine region. This setup is scalable. \n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "vinqcom"}, "recipient": "0x834f240B6dEdc7a0Cf6ae908115B5f0054fC81a4"}}