Italy*
General Country Information
Capital: Rome
Population: 58,147,733 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Republic
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 25.049 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 72.2 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 1.731 million (2006)
Internet users: 28.87 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: .63
World Rank 2005/2006: 28
*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:
Associazione Italiana Assistenza Spastici (AIAS)
info@aiasbo.it
Associazione Italiana Persone Down (Italian Association of People with Down Syndrome) (AIPD)
aipd@pronet.it
Biblioteca Italiana per i Ciechi (Italian Library for the Blind)
bic@bibciechi.it
Center Disabili Information (Center for Disability Information) (CID)
horizon@provincia.torino.it
Consulta Nazionale per la Salute Mentale (National Council on Mental Health)
none
Cooperative Integrate (Cooperation and Integration Consortium) (COIN)
coinsociale@coinsociale.it
Disabled Peoples International Italia
http://www.dpitalia.org/
Ente Nazionale Sordomuti (ENS)
presidenza@ens.it
Federazione delle Associazioni Italiane dei Para-tetraplegici (Federation of Italian Associations of Paraplegia) (FAIP)
raffaelegoretti@libero.it
Stamperia Brialle (SB)
webadmin@regione.toscana.it
Unione Italiana dei Ciechi (Italian Union of the Blind) or UIC
inter@uiciechi.it