Peru*
General Country Information
Capital: Lima
Population: 28,674,757 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Constitutional Republic
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 2.25 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 5.583 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 269,981 (2006)
Internet users: 4.6 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.40
World Rank 2005/2006: 96
*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:
Asociacion de SordoCiegos del Peru (ASOCIP)
no contact information currently available
Asociacion de Sordos del Peru
asdesope@yahoo.es
Centro de Empoderamiento de Personas con Discapacidad (CEPD)
madezhacepeda@hotmail.com
Confederacion Nacional de Discapacitados de Peru (CONFENADIP)
http://confenadip.cjb.net
Sociedad Peruana de Polio
http://www.fundaciontelefonica.org.pe/polio/quienes.htm
Union Latinoamericana de Ciegos
http://fbraille.com.uy/ulac