General Country Information
Capital: Buenos Aires
Population: 40,301,927 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Republic
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 8.8 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 22.1 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 1.612 million (2006)
Internet users: 10 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.51
World Rank 2005/2006: 54
*The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) evaluates the opportunity, infrastructure and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) worldwide and was created by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The DOI is based on a scale of 0-1, where 1 is ideal, and the World Rank is taken into consideration out of 181 countries, based on the DOI.
Disability Organizations and Contact Information:
Biblioteca Argentina para Ciegos (Argentine Library for the Blind)
bac@bac.org.ar
Confederación Argentina de Sordomudos
info@cas.org.ar
Ente Nacional Coordinador de Instituciones de Discapacitados (National Assembly Member of Disabled Peoples' International)
enriquesarfati@gamma.com.ar
Federacion Argentina de Instituciones de Ciegos y Ambliopes (Argentine Federation of Blind Institutions) (FAICA)
faica@deimos.com.ar
Federacion Argentina de Instituciones de Ciegos y Ambliopes (Argentine Federation of Blind Institutions) (FAICA)
faica@deimos.com.ar