General Country Information
Capital: Bogotá
Population: 44,379,598 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Republic with dominating executive branch
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 7,678,800 (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 21.85 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 581,877 (2006)
Internet users: 4.739 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.44
World Rank 2005/2006: 80
*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:
Asociacion Colombiana de Sordociegos (SURCOE)
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Asociacion Colombiana para el Desarrollo de Personas con Discapacidad (ASCOPAR)
no contact information currently available
Federacion Nacional de Sordos de Colombia (FENASCOL)
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