General Country Information
Capital: Brussels
Population: 10,392,226 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Parliamentary Democracy
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 4.8 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 9.46 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 2.871 million (2006)
Internet users: 5.1 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.65
World Rank 2005/2006: 23
*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:
Agence Wallonne pour I'Integration des Personnes Handicapés
secgen@awiph.be
Centre Comprendre et Parler
brcharli@ulb.ac.be
Disability Care Province of Antwerpen
no contact information currently available
FEVLADO - Federatie van Vlaamse Doven Organisaties v.z.w.
fevlado@pandora.be
L'association LPC Belgique (Cued Speech Association of Belgium)
lpc.belgique@skynet.be