Access and penetration of ICT in the socio-economic aspects of rural community Case Study: Rural Ghale Ghafee , Minoodasht County

Access to ICTs can have significant effects on Alleviating Poverty and achieving the social- economic development goals. The research represents studying of penetration rate and using the ICTs in 17 villages at Rural Ghale Ghafee , Minoodasht County where the ICT considered consists of fixed- line telephone service, mobile telephone service, public telephones, computers, and Internet service. Rural communities in the research, located in in Ghale Ghafee area. The sample included 303 individuals, who were selected by stratified random sampling method. Survey method was used, and data was analyzed by Excel and SPSS software. The study concludes that the most of farmers and villagers are Illiterates and low literates that in line with theirs capabilities level, they used the certain ICTs. In this regard Depending on level of individual capability, fixed telephone, mobile telephone and television have more effects for connecting to supplies providers, production buyers as well as learning the new farming methods on rural communities. From the considerable points, is lack of cognition from the potentials the new ICTs such as internet and computers that educate needed should happen.