In recent years, Information and Communication Technologies ( ICTs) has been effected the development in the world, especially in rural areas. In many countries ICTs have increased the quality of rural life with access to necessary information. Therefore, Information and Communication Technology has changd the traditional methods and life of labor force of agriculture to modern methods. ICTs not only increase the incomes in rural areas, but also extended choices for villagers. In other hand, development of internet in rural areas have made world with no boundary and they could directly connected to the world easily.

 

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The aim of this paper is study of status and comparative research of rural Information and Communication Technologies and in particular the comparative study of rural ICTs in villages of Khuzestan province.

  The research method in this article is containing descriptive, analytical, field study and comparative method .

  This article has used the Strengths , Weakness, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) model to analyze the structure of main objects.

  Statistical data in this article is related to Khuzestan province with 1,400,000 of rural population. Khuzestan province with 175 rural Information and Communication centers is ranking 16 in country ranking, compare to other province. This shows that rural ICTs in province of Khuzestan is in lower level in relation to its rural population. Azerbaijan province is first ranking in ICT with 1,200,820 rural population and Qom province is last in this regard.