{"signature": "0x870b3da38d902993d95b87a03f01c0a43b386a4e746f630f62544d92cd6707667b55baa3547ea6b7bf45c53ee0b2b4211e55bbb98364815b30929582506867711b", "application": {"round": "0xc6bc0ed0bf4675cbf14d1140dcef5415d4e6b0ae", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "fXMQ0GWfj0yh7cdTnUflCBwJ5Zk7+ND39TnkQWEpW4fZiy0HOszRd/ZfO0CUE4+F", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "45214ab179f14a2c27e8cd5b8a2b357c657d841a7ffe7d8853c15beeef48a2d869cd8c4c5948fae32e0b5b973e387000931ecfb217026e08649013af3f89980c3b845329d3cee673cada857d250864c21b72e671399aa07828c273efc8256ca4ab9801849c92ca2754d4cd219c4c2586515ef4dcc2920f3581648067ec43f8c8000000000000002092360db73877b5fc42514e648a5c625246430c2fdc8c441ea35e70f89e0b92961369fe1e05f316135510fea7d1ba6e99"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "None", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "3", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Muse-Matrix", "hidden": false, "question": "Github handle (your project GitHub)", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "katbuu", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram handle (of zuzalu representative)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "1", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This project is affiliated with MuseMatrix whose fellows and core team will help development\n\nIt is still in the ideation stage hence nothing in the GitHub", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other affiliations? Is there anything else you'd like to add that may help determine project eligibility?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://twitter.com/katbu00, https://twitter.com/BH1991,  https://twitter.com/erinmagennis, ", "hidden": false, "question": "What are the names and social links of your team members?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes - Katya was at Zuzalu for longer than two weeks", "hidden": false, "question": "Was at least one core team member at Zuzalu or ZuConnect for at least two weeks? If so, who and at which ones? ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This project aligns with Zuzalus focus on collective betterment of society through innovation, security, and collaboration. A decentralised pandemic defence system aligns with all of these goals while leveraging technology to achieve them in an open-source way.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project create value for the Zuzalu ecosystem? ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "No, we have not received any other funding for this project. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received any other funding for this project? If so, how much and from what sources?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This project did not participate but it is affiliated with MuseMatrix who participated in a previous round (please see the MuseMatrix application for this round for information on how funds were used)", "hidden": false, "question": "Did you participate in a previous Zuzalu Gitcoin round? If so, how did you use those funds?", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We do not have a specific budget in mind, though estimate we’d need around 50K to make a reasonable proof-of-concept. \n\nIf we do not raise enough to make an actual prototype, the money will go towards research and progress on this project. \n\nIf we raise an adequate amount. Some of the funding will be used to purchase hardware (ie temperature sensors or others).  Some of the money will go towards prize money (hackathon style) to figure out the best way to verify a reliable pandemic sensing system", "hidden": false, "question": "What is your project budget? And if your project is accepted, how will you use the funds from this round? ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The project will be built on the Ethereum ecosystem.", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your blockchain-facing tech maximally compatible with Ethereum and common Ethereum ecosystem standards(https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/standards/)? If so, how? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes, our project is entirely open source.  We would want that hardware to also be open sourced also (in an ideal situation, even the CPU would be RISC-V but this will likely not be possible at this stage as its would be too expensive/difficult)", "hidden": false, "question": "Is your project open source? If any code is a closed source, why? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": false, "question": "Do you agree by January 1st, 2025 to declare how the funds were used via Zuzagora or its successor? ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "To be defined - would be happy to figure out projects we can work with", "hidden": false, "question": "How could your project interoperate with other Zuzalu projects? ", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "link", "hidden": false, "question": "If your project is a working product, share a link to a demo video ", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Write out your roadmap if not already included in your project description", "questionId": 18}], "project": {"id": "0xd9f40a6d0baf4981d46ee883dc9f61f0d464c8ae2b271524b916c7257a5da072", "title": "Decentralised Pandemic Defence Network", "logoImg": "bafkreihp7rjomtpgixnoq5hnptqo75m7lg3chuobvyty3z4w53geulbsnm", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreigvvdfshg2stdodpjpi7txmlobmzwr5xa4pwrbk5zqinq7z75hlu4", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://pandemicdefence.carrd.co/", "createdAt": 1721253490157, "credentials": {}, "description": "A proof of concept for a decentralised pandemic defence network, focusing specifically on the early detection phase.\n\nPandemic preparedness is a critical topic and it's fairly clear that a lot of countries were underprepared for COVID. There are reasonable mechanisms to suggest that pandemics may increase in frequency (especially given the increasing availability of bioengineering combined with AI lowering the threshold for someone inexperienced to be able to do this).\n\nWe believe that every stage of pandemic defence should be decentralised and open source. \n\nLoosely speaking, combatting a pandemic involves both defensive measures (early detection, isolation, PPE, far-UVC, etc.) and offensive measures (eg vaccines and treatment). \n\nThere is already some innovation in this space supported by Vitalik and Balvi (moonshot anti-covid effort funded by @ShibainuCoin @CryptoRelief_) This includes vaccine development (RADVAC/PopVax), air monitoring systems/air cleaning, patient-led research into Long COVID, Epiwatch, real-time analysis of open-source data to provide better early warnings of outbreaks and more.\n\n**Vision**\nWe will focus on hardware-based early detection systems. This project will be formally initiated and worked on during ZuGeorgia (brainstorming, road-mapping and early prototyping phase).\n\nIn an ideal situation, a decentralised early warning system would consist of globally distributed real-time PCR/sequencing machines that can sequence novel pathogens (via air, water or surfaces)*. Though current costs and reagent requirements make this impractical for now, this project will lay the groundwork for future implementations.\n\n*Sequencing novel pathogens, especially via a portable machine is extremely difficult but may not be necessary. There is evidence showing pandemics can be predicted by detecting genotypic changes accumulating in the global viral population which precede pandemic emergence (ie this could warn you BEFORE a pandemic has emerged)\n\n**Proof of concept**\nThe proof-of-concept will be scoped out and road mapped during ZuGeorgia but as a reasonable starting point, using biosensors makes a pragmatic and achievable target to begin with.\n\nWe will build a system that is robust, tamper-proof and has mechanisms of verifying data.\n\nWe will brainstorm the ideal starting point but the working thesis is building a proof of concept using temperature sensors (eg laser temperature gun), with a mechanism that data is signed with private/public key pairing before data has left the device (ie so data is verified at source) along with zK for privacy. \n\nThis is a pragmatic starting point as the hardware is cheap and technologically not complicated whilst paving the way for other hardware devices to be added (eg a PCR machine but more likely connections with air-quality monitoring such as Open CPC)\n\nA temperature detection system, especially placed at locations with high footfall eg airport/train stations would be useful but likely not an optimal way of detecting pandemics (mainly because at this point, the pandemic has already started to spread, an ideal detection system would warn you before it has even emerged)\n\nThe point of this project is to have a proof of concept, where hardware that users can buy can be connected to a global system that generates verified open-source data contributing to pandemic surveillance. This will provide work others can build on, and encourage other devices (eg Open CPC) to connect to the same network.\n\n**Scoping work (to be done in ZuGeorgia)**\n\nScoping work will include (but not limited to)\n- Is a temperature sensor the best (ie low cost, easy enough to do) proof of concept or should we explore other options (water-based sensors, agriculture sensors or other)\n- How many real-time PCR devices placed around the world would provide sufficient cover?\n- Detailed cost analysis of different sensor types and deployment strategies.\n- Developing robust, tamper-proof enclosures and data verification systems.\n", "lastUpdated": 0}, "recipient": "0x17e4285BeE986aE686504131D3D5ABE0009f297A"}}