Tauchain Alpha will be a social platform
First for some interesting statistics:
- 1.2 billion is the estimated total population of Africa. That is a lot of people.
- Many African people and African countries embrace new technologies. This is evident from the fact that Africans have been using digital currencies via smart phone (MPesa) for years before there was a Bitcoin.
- African minds represent a mostly untapped resource (human resource). As the Internet connects people together it will be important to allow all minds to contribute to the growing crypto ecosystem.
- Nigeria, Morroco, South Africa, all have Internet access. Of course there are many more countries than this but these are three examples. MPesa in specific is already operating in South Africa.
Because the Tauchain Alpha product will be a social platform it will be both possible and in my opinion desirable to onramp Africans. This means the outreach would be to help Africans set up accounts which means websites and 1 on 1 level outreach if necessary. If we look at Steem as an example of success then we can see even in 2018 there are many Africans who benefit currently from the current iteration of blockchain technology. Tauchain will be state of the art and Africans must be encouraged and allowed to interact with the state of the art tech.
The Agoras Knowledge Market
In my opinion there should be an outreach to Africans to promote Agoras Knowledge Market when it launches. This in my opinion will immediately allow Africans to contribute knowledge and earn crypto rewards in exchange.
A knowledge market rewards the generation of new knowledge. It rewards contribution of knowledge. It allows people to sell their knowledge. This can be possible provided the Tauchain platform can scale via microtransactions to allow millions of people to interact with it in real time. I do not know yet if this will be possible. This is something we can help make possible.
The Microtask Market
Microtasks are relatively simple tasks which require human computation to complete. Artificial intelligence cannot do everything better than people. For the things which artificial intelligence cannot or should not be doing there will be a required microtask market. This concept already is in development on other platforms. To provide an example you can see Gems.org which advertises itself as a decentralized "mechanical turk".
In an ideal scenario Tauchain will launch Agoras and with it a microtasking infrastructure allowing anyone with an Internet connection anywhere on the planet to log in and do microtasks. In my opinion this is the future of work for many people as telecommuting, digital nomad, and online income become increasingly mainstream. Provided that this infrastructure is in place it can benefit Africans whom can take on microtasks and receive quite a decent income due to the lower cost of living in African countries compared to other places.
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I've noticed an increase in the number of African contributors on Steemit. Tauchain looks like an amazing tool to help leverage the mental wealth of this incredible continent.
Wow, total win-win. Technology is moving fast and this is what we need to allow everyone to create wealth.
Very good article !
Great to here about this platforms and also great read about the state of the art, yes, more decentralised platforms should be launched on regional levels because that will give other people an opportunity to expand themselves into this new era of Decentralised world, and we all should eye towards an world with financial freedom because every part of this world, we have millions of people who are facing lack of basic resources, and now it's time to change the face of lives because we have the choice of Decentralisation. Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂
There is room for more advancement for Africa. Tauchain is one of a host of ways to better the stay of living if the people. It the internet access granted in Africa they can make decent earnings for themselves. Nice
The African continent will really experience a level of tokenization that will bring triple development, this Tauchain will be a brilliant concept
This is amazing , you see Africans especially Nigerians embraces technology and this will definitely be a win-win for both the network provider and the consumers. Great possibilities and opportunities in Africa for technological innovations and development.
Africa has been one of the most hit countries in the economic crisis of the last decade, it would be good to see Africa emerge, the Africans with the new platform that comes out have the opportunity to seek economic relief.
Note this inevitable Tauchain effect.: https://steemit.com/blockchain/@karov/geodesic-by-tau, Tau can DO all African institutions, too.
Instead of wasting time and resources to put together working to a degree hierarchy, they can outright leapfrog it for Tau geodesics. Which means also peace.
Why not do both? Degrees have value because you can better produce new knowledge. In addition perhaps it's free or cheaper to get a degree in some of these countries compared to the USA. So a degree is welcome (for example a doctor requires a degree to practice medicine but then can share their knowledge on Steemit).
The benefit of Tau is in taking an intangible asset (knowledge) and allowing it to be monetized. Education in itself does produce and increase knowledge but there isn't a way for brilliance to be monetized in a direct fashion.
I think Tau as edu machine is not non-degree thing. In fact it will allow pretty precise assessment of what exactly one knows. What better degree than that, than a Tau real time rating? Universities and other centers can use that!