Poland
General Country Information
Capital: Warsaw
Population: 38,518,241 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Republic
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 11.803 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 29.166 million (2005)
Internet hosts: 358,476 (2006)
Internet users: 10.6 million (2005)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.51
World Rank 2005/2006: 53
*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 of Helping Hand for the Hearing Impaired (Hear the Heart)
no contact information currently available
Disabled Peoples' International - Poland
no contact information currently available
Polish Association of Disabled People (PADP)
pson@uran.ip.krakow.pl