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Nearly 90% of consumers have personal experience of the disadvantages of the platform economy
In recent years, the platform economy has risen rapidly. Today, many of the largest and most influential companies in the world are platform companies. They reconstruct the ways of work, social interaction, and value creation and distribution, and have played a powerful role in optimizing asset allocation, promoting industrial upgrading, expanding consumer markets, and increasing employment.
However, after the early network effects and scale development, the platform economy is also showing many growing pains: After the early network effects and scale development, platform companies begin to exploit the established market, extract value and become the rule-making It seems common for platform companies to monetize user data, but there are no clear rights and responsibilities and strong measures to protect data security and privacy protection; the platform economy makes it possible to use scattered labor in many fields, but There is no economic incentive to provide gig workers with adequate labor security and career advancement…
According to The OAN's research, for "the platform economy unilaterally formulates the rules of the game, small merchants and vulnerable users are treated unfairly", "new types of work under the platform economy such as food delivery riders do not have sufficient insurance coverage", "competing platforms Mutual exclusion, cooperative merchants are forced to choose one of the two", "the platform puts its own interests first, and may engage in behaviors that infringe the interests of consumers such as 'big data kills'" and other possible problems and potential problems caused by various platform economies. Question, 86.86% of the respondents said that they have had personal experience. Only 13.14% of the people said that they have not experienced it personally.
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Blockchain Technology Promises to Solve Privacy Concerns in the Internet Age
According to the survey, 83.66% of people believe that blockchain technology can solve privacy issues in the Internet age. The reasons cited by the respondents include, "blockchain can prevent tampering", "multiple encryption mechanisms can be implemented on blockchain", "blockchain has the characteristics of decentralization" and so on. There are also many investigators who have expressed confidence in the blockchain, and the blockchain is a development trend. This shows that people in the industry have a high degree of confidence and recognition of blockchain technology.
For the platform economy, The OAN believes that blockchain-based open applications can store personal information on the blockchain for protection on the one hand, and on the other hand can realize information and other applications under appropriate authorization through smart contracts. The secure interaction of the program, so as to return the data control to the user.
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The future platform economy will be more open
Many problems of the platform economy are not only reflected in the centralization of data, but also in the centralization of rights. For example, 24.68% of the survey respondents were worried about the problem of “choosing one of two” competing platforms faced by merchants, and 44.23% of the survey respondents were worried about the unfair treatment of small merchants and vulnerable users on the platform.
The solution to these problems requires a more open mechanism. Take the many new types of jobs spawned by the platform economy as examples, such as food delivery riders, carpool drivers, and chore workers. Level, etc.) has control, cannot change platforms at will, lacks career development, and cannot obtain the necessary income stability and social security coverage.
The OAN is an open source infrastructure based on a blockchain network and a hosting and development platform for open applications. Open applications give control back to the user while being accessible across platforms. The OAN is developing a consumer app for gig workers. This APP will allow gig workers to have personal digital profiles that can be used across platforms, and at the same time provide public welfare coverage, including credit, to gig workers based on these digital profiles.
In the survey, 88.14% of people believe that the future platform economy and even the Internet economy will be more open, giving participants more rights to self-management, participation and innovation, and the new generation of user experience requires more open applications.
The survey by The OAN covered 500 practitioners and enthusiasts in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, among which 84.29% of the respondents had a bachelor’s degree or above, and 9.29% were technical R&D personnel.
