Djibouti - Jabuuti - جيبوتي (DJ)
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1. Language information / Données sur les langues
1.1 Languages spoken / Langues parlées
a) Official / Officielle(s) :
French, Standard Arabic, as stipulated in the constitution (Aménagement linguistique)
b) National, indigenous / Nationale(s), indigène(s) :
Most of the population speaks Afar, Somali, or Arabic (local dialect)
Ethnologue lists 5 languages at http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=DJ
c) Relevant pages in the Major Languages section of this report / Pages appropriées dans la section de ce rapport sur les Langues principales :
Arabic, Somali. A page on Afar is in the More Languages section.
1.2 Language policy / Politique de langue
a) Laws/legislation / Lois/législation :
The site L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde has a page on Djibouti at http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/djibouti.htm
b) Agencies / Agences :
c) Languages in education/literacy / Langues dans l'éducation/l'alphabétisation :
UNDP (2006) gives a literacy figure (without reference to which language[s]) of: 65%
1.3 Writing in national/indigenous languages / Ecriture en langues nationales/indigènes
a) Orthographies / Orthographes :
Arabic, of course, is written with the Arabic script. Somali most commonly uses the unmodified Latin script. Afar apparently also uses the Latin alphabet but also can be written in Ge'ez.
b) Print publications / Editions imprimées :
1.4 1.d. Other comments / Autre commentaire
2. ICT situation / Situation des TIC
2.1 Infrastructure / Infrastructure
a) Telephones / Téléphones :
- Fixed lines:
- Telephone mainlines: 15 per 1000 people (APC)
- Telephones - main lines in use: 11,100 (2004) (CIA)
- Mobile subscriptions:
- 23,000 (3.4 per 100 people) (ITU 2004 cited in Vodafone 2005)
- Telephones - mobile cellular: 34,500 (2004) (CIA)
- GSM companies & coverage : http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_dj.shtml
b) Radio stations / Stations de radio :
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0 (2001)
c) Connectivity / Connectivité :
- International internet bandwidth / Bande passante internationale d'internet :
- ISPs / FSI :
- Internet hosts :
- According to CIA, 1,540 (2006)
- According to ISC, 96 on the .dj domain (2007)
- Geographic coverage / Couverture géographique :
2.2 Computer & internet access / Accès aux ordinateurs et à l'internet
a) Computers & points of access / Ordinateurs et lieux d'accès :
- Number of computers / Nombre d'ordinateurs: 10.9 per 1000 people (APC)
- Cybercafés / Cybercafés:
- Project telecentres / Télécentres de projets:
b) Internet / Internet :
- Dial-up subscribers / Abonnés par ligne téléphonique :
- Internet users / Utilisateurs de l'internet : 9,000 Internet users as of Sept/05, 1.2% of the population, per ITU (Internet World Stats)
c) Other / Autre :
- Digital Opportunity Index (DOI): 0.26 (ITU 2006)
Djibouti Télécom http://www.adjib.dj/
2.3 ICT policy / Politique de TIC
The Ministère de la communication et de la culture, chargé des postes et des télécommunications http://www.mccpt.dj/ is the government department in charge of ICT development in Djibouti. Under its lead (according to UNECA/AISI (2005?)), the government has developed a 20-year plan with over 30 project areas.
A short document discusses ICT strategy: Richard Labelle (2003) "Priorities for ICT Programming in Djibouti" http://www.mccpt.dj/strategie.doc
Information on Djibouti's ICT policy on UNECA/AISI's NICI site:
- NICI country page http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/Djibouti/djibouti.htm
- NICI policy http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/country_profiles/Djibouti/djbpol.htm
- NICI country profile/background (not recently updated; has links to other NICI pages) http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/country_profiles/Djibouti/djbab.htm
The APC page, "ICT Policy in Djibouti" has some information and links:
- In English: http://rights.apc.org/africa/index.shtml?apc=s21840e_1
- En français: http://afrique.droits.apc.org/index.shtml?apc=s21840e_1
2.4 ICT4D/E & ICT training / TIC pour le développement/éducation, et formation en TIC
WikiEducator has a page on ICTs and education, including table on enabling and constraining factors, at http://www.wikieducator.org/ICT4Africa/Country_Report_Djibouti
2.5 Resources / Ressources
Institut des Sciences et des Nouvelles Technologies (ISNT)
3. Localisation situation / Situation de localisation
3.1 Country web content / Contenu web du pays
3.2 Web content in indigenous languages / Contenu web en langues indigènes
None known of.
(See also specific language pages.)
3.3 Software localisation / Localisation de logiciel
(See also specific language pages.)
3.4 Projects & organisations / Projets et organisations
3.5 Localisation policy / Politique de localisation
4. References / Références
APC, "ICT Policy in Djibouti," Africa ICT Policy Monitor, http://rights.apc.org/africa/index.shtml?apc=s21840e_1
International Telecommunications Union (ITU). 2006. World Information Society Report 2006. Geneva: ITU. http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/publications/worldinformationsociety/2006/wisr-web.pdf
______. 2004. African Telecommunication Indicators 2004. Geneva: ITU.
Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), "Distribution of Top-Level Domain Names by Host Country, Jan 2007" http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/ops/ds/
Internet World Stats: Africa. 2006. http://internetworldstats.com/africa.htm
Labelle, Richard. 2003. "Priorities for ICT Programming in Djibouti" http://www.mccpt.dj/strategie.doc
Leclerc, Jacques. L'aménagement linguistique dans le monde, "Djibouti," http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/afrique/djibouti.htm
SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Languages of Djibouti," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=DJ
UNDP. 2006. ''Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis. Human Development Report 2006.'' New York: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). [Human development index Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) (HDI) http://hdr.undp.org/hdr2006/statistics/indicators/3.html ]
UNECA/AISI (2005?) "NICI Country Pages: Djibouti" http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/Djibouti/djibouti.htm
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), "The World Factbook: Djibouti" https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/dj.html
Vodafone. 2005. "Africa: The Impact of Mobile Phones." The Vodafone Policy Paper Series, Number 3, March 2005. http://www.vodafone.com/assets/files/en/GPP%20SIM%20paper.pdf
WikiEducator, "ICT4Africa/Country Report Djibouti," http://www.wikieducator.org/ICT4Africa/Country_Report_Djibouti
Wikipedia, "Communications in Djibouti," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_Djibouti
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