General Country Information
Capital: Helsinki
Population: 5,238,460 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Republic
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 2.12 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 5.231 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 1.634 million (2006)
Internet users: 3.286 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.69
World Rank 2005/2006: 11
*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:
Finnish Association of People with Mobility Disabilities (FMD)
fmd@invalidiliitto.fi
Finnish Association of the Deaf
kuurojenliitto@kl-deaf.fi
Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired (FFVI)
ffvi@nkl.fi