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Social Networkand Use and Impact on

Registrars functions

SUTANU SINHASENIOR DIRECTOR, ICSI

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IndiaInternet Usage Stats and Telecommunications Market Report

Internet Usage and Population Statistics:

YEAR Users Population % Pen. Usage Source1998 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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Internet Access60% of adults access Internet every day in 2010

World Bank findings1. Sub Sahara in Africa 36 out of 46 Governmentimproved their economicies regulatory environment2. 125 economicies implemented 245 reforms-greater share where aimed at strengthing insolvencyand investor protection3. Improvement in insolvency system influences costof debt excess to credit resulting in ability ofeconomy from recession and speed up of itsrecovery.4. New data show that the importance of access toregulatory information.

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Electronic relationship makes it easy tomisrepresent information provider-authencity is questionable.

Rumuor- may have serious impact onregulatory and Government functioning .

Speed of misinformation or doctoredinformation- the information disseminationis at the speed of sound and reachessimultaneously at global level.

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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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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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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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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 googlewere 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 facebookand google lawyers. 13