IOTA is the first distributed ledger architecture that has no transaction fees and is built for ecosystems such as the Internet of Things or Web 3.0; enabling a future in which devices can securely communicate with and autonomously compensate each other.

As part of the IOTA community, I decided to tackle a problem that I have wanted to solve since writing my first line of code collaboratively, now more than 15 years ago.

The Problem

Today, online collaboration is mostly done through centralized platforms. On one hand, are centralized and fee-collecting platforms that allow users to offer or complete tasks. Here, tasks and activities that fit the users skill set often take a lot of time and energy to discover. The process may include multiple subscriptions, requires trust to be given to central authorities and there is often little to no incentive for fair compensation. Often times it’s not even possible to offer or complete unpaid tasks.

On the other hand, there are isolated open source communities that tend to organize on project specific services/servers to exchange ideas and make use of traditional agile project management to delegate tasks specific to the project. Thus creating similar disadvantages, where it takes participants a long time to find individual projects and tasks of the nature perfect for them to complete. Broadly, centralized collaboration includes redundant work and all in all consumes resources rather wastefully than efficiently.

Another caveat is that learning and advancing skills is up to the users and takes place in separate, project/activity specific environments, again demanding more attention and energy from the participants. Jeshka also seeks to solve this issue, to allow users to continuously advance on their individual learning curves, freeing more attention and energy for participants.

To summarize, there is ample room to improve task delegation and fragmentation, while addressing centralization, fairness and trust.

The Solution

My proposed solution makes use of IOTAs capabilities and machine learning technologies to create a feeless, trustless and fully decentralized ecosystem of services that enable optimal fragmentation and reuse of work performed by humans and machines across projects and departments. While providing a constantly optimized incentive for fair compensation, allowing for voluntarily unpaid participation and embedded learning experiences. The computer can be used as a tool to teach and reward people, rather than to exploit them. For simplicity: The Jeshka Internet of Tasks. Use our Discord channel below to drop your awesome name ideas.

What’s the current status?

A few months ago I proposed the idea to fellow IOTA community members and received primarily positive feedback. I set up a basic collaborative environment by making use of common team communication and collaboration systems and we started building Jeshka together.

Yet we are still only a small group of people and have a lot of roles to fill.

What Jeshka is not:

Jeshka is not an enterprise; it’s solely funded by donations and driven by community contributions.

Jeshka is not a “shitcoin” or token project, it’s an open ecosystem and especially for micro payments aims to make use of the IOTA currency.

Jeshka is not in competition with IOTA and does not raise a conflict of interest. Jeshka complements IOTA and adds additional resources to further drive the successful development of IOTA technology.

This article is written and edited by Jeshka Del Sur, Samuel Rufinatscha and other IOTA community members.

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