# Introduction
deScier is a digital cooperative and a collaborative formation for community-governed constituted by members, institutes, scientists, companies, investors and influencers working on decentralized scientific initiatives, which are currently represented by:
1\) research & development
2\) publishing
3\) education
4\) promotion
5\) financing and
6\) networking.
Figure 1. Players and Initiatives of the deScier ecosystem.
The deScier ecosystem is an alternative for the way science is done today.
In our website [https://descier.science](https://decier.science) and our Discord, scientists will be able to find different and complementary ways to collaborate on scientific research.
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