General Country Information
Capital: Wellington
Population: 4,115,771 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Parliamentary Democracy
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 1.8 million (2004)
Telephone- mobile: 3.53 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 1.05 million (2006)
Internet users: 3.2 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.65
World Rank 2005/2006: 25
*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:
Accease
rhunt@accease.com
Amputees Federation of New Zealand (AFNZ)
Lorrstan@xtra.co.nz
Association of Blind Citizens of New Zealand (ABCNZ)
rwilkinson@abcnz.org.nz
Brain Injury Association New Zealand
bianz@brain-injury.org.nz
Deaf Association of New Zealand (DANZ)
deafassc@iconz.co.nz
Disabled Persons Assembly New Zealand Inc. (DPANZ)
gen@dpa.org.nz
Enable New Zealand
enable@enable.co.nz
IHC New Zealand Inc.
webmaster@ihc.org.nz
Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand (MHFNZ)
resource@mentalhealth.org.nz
MS Society of New Zealand (MSSNZ)
no contact information currently available
Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind (RNZFB)
general@rnzfb.org.nz