General Country Information
Capital: Berlin
Population: 82,400,996 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Federal Republic
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 55.046 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 79.2 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 11.859 million (2006)
Internet users: 50.616 million (2006)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.66
World Rank 2005/2006: 19
*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:
Bundersarbeltsgemeinschaft Hilfe für Behinderte e.V (BAGH) (German Working Party for Persons with Disabilities and Chronic Diseases)
info@bagh.de
Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft fur Rehabilitation (BAR)
BAR-Frankfurt@t-online.de
Deutsche Vereinigung für die Rehabilitation Behinderter e. V. - DVfR (German Society for Rehabilitation of the Disabled)
info@dvfr.de
Deutscher Gerhörlosenbund (German Federation of the Deaf)
no contact information currently available
Disabled Peoples' International - Germany
dinah.radke@zsl.erlangen.de
German Federation of Blind and Visually Impaired People (DBSV)
info@dbsv.org
Kompetenzzentrum Barrierefrei Planen und Bauen (Center for Barrier Free Planning and Construction)
barrierefrei@ifg.tu-berlin.de
MOVADO
berlin-brandenburg@vdk.de
Politische Interessenvertretung behinderter Frauen (Political Protection of Interests of Handicapped Women)
info@weibernetz.de