Kenya
General Country Information
Capital: Nairobi
Population: 36,913,721 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Republic
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 281,800 (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 6.5 million (2006)
Internet hosts: 13,274 (2006)
Internet users: 1.055 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.17
World Rank 2005/2006: 153
*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:
Association for the Physically Disabled of Kenya (ADPK)
no contact information currently available
Butere Initiative for Persons with Disability (BIPD)
buterebipd@yahoo.com
Kenya Deaf Welfare Society
undeafken@yahoo.com, nicedeaf@yahoo.com
Kenya Disabled Development Society (KDDS)
kdds@swiftkisumu.com
Kenya Institute for Special Education
info@kenyaweb.com
http://www.kenyaweb.com/educ/kise.html
Kenya National Association for the Deaf
+1 254 222-7320
Kenya Programmes of Disabled Persons
kpdp@nbnet.co.ke
Kenya Society for the Mentally Handicapped
kenyamencap@yahoo.com
http://www.kenyamencap.kabissa.org
Koyonzo Handicapped Self-Help Group
no contact information currently available
United Disabled Persons of Kenya
disability@wananchi.com