1. Social Network
and Use and Impact on
Registrars functions
SUTANU SINHA
SENIOR DIRECTOR, ICSI
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6. India
Internet Usage Stats and Telecommunications Market Report
Internet Usage and Population Statistics:
YEAR Users Population % Pen. Usage Source
1998 1,400,000 1,094,870,677 0.1 %
1999 2,800,000 1,094,870,677 0.3 %
2000 5,500,000 1,094,870,677 0.5 %
2001 7,000,000 1,094,870,677 0.7 %
2002 16,500,000 1,094,870,677 1.6 %
2003 22,500,000 1,094,870,677 2.1 %
2004 39,200,000 1,094,870,677 3.6 %
2005 50,600,000 1,112,225,812 4.5 %
2006 40,000,000 1,112,225,812 3.6 %
2007 42,000,000 1,129,667,528 3.7 %
2009 81,000,000 1,156,897,766 7.0 %
2010 100,000,000 1,173,108,018 8.5 %
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7. Internet Access
60% of adults
access Internet
every day in 2010
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8.  World Bank findings
1. Sub Sahara in Africa 36 out of 46 Government
improved their economicies regulatory environment
2. 125 economicies implemented 245 reforms-
greater share where aimed at strengthing insolvency
and investor protection
3. Improvement in insolvency system influences cost
of debt excess to credit resulting in ability of
economy from recession and speed up of its
recovery.
4. New data show that the importance of access to
regulatory information.
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9.  Electronic relationship makes it easy to
misrepresent information provider-
authencity is questionable.
 Rumuor- may have serious impact on
regulatory and Government functioning .
 Speed of misinformation or doctored
information- the information dissemination
is at the speed of sound and reaches
simultaneously at global level.
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10.  Network is depending upon how a countries
are digitally connected.
 How much citizens are net savvy .
 Bandwidth of network .
 Generation gap and digital divide.
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11.  The countries are today sensitive to social network.
 We have experienced that many Government are
advising the nurture network players to remove
blogs / information which are socially and
politically sensitive to a particular economy.
 On the contrary this is an emerging platform to get
views of the citizens.
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12.  Legal Framework
 Monitoring networks and surveillance
 Dissemination of useful information
 Investors education
 Consultative Process
 Ready for Paradigm shift- Change in Mindset
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13.  Press Report -Delhi High Court , January 16,
2012
 No one in India wants the situation to be as
China where some sites are blocked for not
complying. But today facebook and google
were dragged to the doors of the court in
India because of OFFENSIVE MATERIALS
posted on these websites.
Justice Suresh Cait told "we can block all
those sites who do not comply with us,but do
not let us go to that situation" , to facebook
and google lawyers. 13