@inproceedings{0ab360466d8346c8898dc1ab78fb264a,
title = "Role of blockchain in forestalling pandemics",
abstract = "The unexpected development and quick; however, the uncontrolled overall spread of the Coronavirus shows us the disappointment of existing human services observation frameworks to convenient handle general wellbeing crises. In spite of the fact that upgrades in medicinal services observation have been understood, these still miss the mark in forestalling commotion. Absence of important advances taken to guarantee control and following of the infection have bothered the circumstance. Blockchain innovation has progressively been referenced as an instrument to help with different parts of various applications. This paper highlights the role of blockchain in forestalling the future of pandemics. Various use cases of blockchain technology that can help in the battle against the COVID-19 are also highlighted in this paper.",
keywords = "Blockchain, COVID-19, Cryptography, Distributed ledger, Pandemic",
author = "Keshav Kaushik and Susheela Dahiya and Rajani Singh and Dwivedi, {Ashutosh Dhar}",
note = "Funding Information: Application or App that can track and trace the patients infected from novel Coronavirus plays an important role in fighting against the current pandemic. In one hand, due to their capability of early detection of infected people location and stop spreading further, such contact tracing apps became a necessary tool in reducing the virus spared globally. On the other hand, apps need to store some data such as patient personal information, COVID data and therefore, these apps are struggling to meet the expectations such as data security, data tempering and data privacy. Several countries, such as Australia, South Korea, Austria, United Kingdom, has started looking into blockchain technology to solve this issue. For example, in June 2020, a grant of 60,000 Euro for a project QualiSig is funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Digital and Economic Affairs. The project is focused on creating three COVID-related prototypes for health data, fraud prevention and fake news with the use of Ardor Blockchain [25]. Some of the blockchain-based contact tracing app “Beeptrace” has already been proposed by the researchers from University of Glassgow [26]. This app uses global positioning systems (GPS) and smartphones to track users movements and uploads the data into the blockchain. For providing security, they encrypt the data before storing into Blockchain. South Korea{\textquoteright}s most popular domestic tourist destination Jeju Island is using secure COVID-19 secure contact tracing app based on Blockchain Technology developed by ICONLOOP [27]. Therefore, it is fair to say that blockchain resolves the issues associated with COVID and patient-related data up to some extent, such as data security and data tampering. However, privacy has not been properly resolved as we know that these data contain sensitive information of patients. To solve this challenge, zero-knowledge proofs, along with the Blockchain technology, can further be investigated. Funding Information: The work of Rajani Singh is funded by the Danish Ministry of Education and Science, Digital Pilot Hub and Skylab Digital. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 IEEE.; 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems, MASS 2020 ; Conference date: 10-12-2020 Through 13-12-2020",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1109/MASS50613.2020.00014",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems, MASS 2020",
pages = "32--37",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems, MASS 2020",
publisher = "IEEE",
address = "United States",
}