The problem CitizenSci 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.

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.