Webinar and Seminar Sessions

May 17, 2022

Two sessions are organised as back-to-back events on the topics of research methodology and blockchain on 17th May.

Session 1:  Webinar on Research Methodology (Date: 17/05/2022)

The speaker of this webinar was Dr. Amritpal Singh from NIT Srinagar. Attendees were told about the benefits of research papers and were enlightened about the 5 processes for Research Projects, which were,

-> Identify a topic

-> Do Literature Survey

-> Formulate Research Question(s)

-> Develop and Evaluate the solution

-> Articulate the research

The speaker also provided some useful insights for a research project at the end of the webinar. They were:

i) Assumptions should be verified.

ii) If one solution fails, researcher should try other solutions some epsilon away from the original.

iii) Research project must be enjoyed and quality time and hard work should be spent on it.

iv) The most important quality in a research project is curiosity, quality, determination and flexibility.

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Session 2: Seminar on the Use case and Introduction to blockchain  (Date: 17/05/2022)

 The speaker of this webinar was Ms. Gupriya Bhatia . Attendees were told about the key attributes of blockchain, challenges of centralization and much more .

-> Types of blockchain :permissionless and permissioned .

-> How does blockchain work ?

She also talked about the importance of blockchain . Why blockchain?

Proposed crowsourcing platform overview.

Proposed architecture overview.

The speaker also gave a brief Information about the Potential Evaluators and Selecting them and also some insights about updating reputations.

So, the important learnings from this webinar are:

1. How each step of crowdsourcing could be managed as transaction on Blockchain

2. Address various attacks possible on centralised Crowdsourcing platform

3. Establishing better trust on worker’s of the platform

4. Reduce cost for task poster as well as worker.

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