General Country Information
Capital: Dhaka
Population: 150,448,339
Form of Government: Parliamentary Democracy
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 1.07 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 9 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 469 (2006)
Internet users: 300,000 (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.25
World Rank 2005/2006: 134
*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:
Bangladesh Blind Mission
no contact information currently available
Bangladesh Dristihin Foundation (BDF)
no contact information currently available
Bangladesh National Federation of the Deaf
bnfd@bangla.net
Bangladesh National Society for the Blind (BNSB)
msaifulislam@hotmail.com
The Bangladesh Protibandhi Kallyan Somity (BPKS)
bpksdo@agni.com, bpks@citechco.net, bpkswn@agni.com
Bangladesh Protibondhi Foundation (Foundation for the Developmentally Disabled)
bpf@bangla.net
Gram Bikash Sangstha (GBS)
no contact information currently available
Pally Badhue Kallan Sangstha (PBKS)
adcom@bttb.net.bd