Fragments aims to provide a micro-task app platform, where developers are encouraged to build systems which we cannot imagine today. Fragments platform incentivizes extensions, by enabling developers to take a small revenue cut. Fragments provides to micro-task apps, what Ethereum provides to blockchain apps.
Fragments will be a mobile-first decentralized platform, which incentivizes developers to build future micro-task applications that we cannot imagine today. Our goal is to create a trusted platform, by implementing identity management and agreements on the blockchain and providing self-hosted solutions, while reducing costs and barriers to entry for all – requesters, annotators, and developers.
The Fragments platform aims to make the barrier-to-entry lower for both annotators and requesters and increase the efficiency of the market by workforce optimization and decentralization. Below we elaborate on the unique propositions of the Fragments platform.
Fragments is built on top of Ethereum and provides to micro-task apps, what Ethereum provides to blockchain apps – an easily accessible and extensible framework and infrastructure. Fragments provides a framework for requesters so they can advertise their tasks and a framework for annotators so they can pick and mark tasks completed on their mobile device and elsewhere. The dApp in the middle has a number of functions including advertisement of task batches, logs of what tasks were completed and payments.
Fragments is by design extensible, and hence anyone can develop and release an annotator application for any desired platform, even a smartwatch. However, since (as described above) we realize the importance of mobile platforms (and lack of focus on them from some of the key players in the micro-task field, such as Amazon Mechanical Turk), we aim to strongly support mobile app development. Our first extension module focused on annotating data for AI, will be concentrating on mobile and we will release mobile Software Development Kits (SDKs) that will make it easy for developers of applications, to target mobile environment.
The Fragment Token. To facilitate quick international payments and trust, Fragments utilizes its own cryptocurrency in the form of standard ERC20 [16] tokens that are powered by Ethereum.
A Fragment token is a utility token that can be used on the Fragments platform for the following:
• Paying workers on the platform
• Paying commission to micro-task app developers if their app is used
• Staking mechanism for Task Repositories
• Enterprise edition support fees
• Earning tokens for hosting Task Repositories
The Fragments platform aims to provide the following value for its users.
Requesters
With ready-to-use micro-task apps on the Fragments platform, introducing a flexible and scalable human workforce in a project, will be as easy as acquiring some cryptocurrency, adding a framework to your project and setting a few parameters. Requesters can decide what micro-task apps they want to use based on the value they provide and the commission they take, or build on the bare-bones Fragments platform with zero commissions. Businesses will benefit from the ability to mix in-house annotators with those contracted over the Fragments platform. With verifiable agreements on blockchain and self-hosted solutions, the control of sensitive data is enhanced.
Annotators
The barriers to entry are very low – no bank account or computer is required. Annotators can complete tasks on their device of choice and pick a microtask app which features interesting tasks and allows them to be efficient. Payments
are received in tokens that can be converted to other cryptocurrency or real-world money.
Developers
Using provided frameworks, developers can easily build apps on top of the platform. Creating innovative apps and releasing them to the general public is encouraged, since developers are able to take commission from tasks completed through their apps.
Source: Fragments WhitePaper
Website: https://fragments.network/
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