India dominates Asia in the number of ICT/Internet technologies enabled rural
development programs. These projects can be classified as:
o Infrastructure
o Rural Services including e-governance
o Agriculture related which can be further classified as for:
o Marketing
o Community Mobilization and Development
o Agricultural Extension
The paper gives examples of these projects. At present, projects in agricultural
extension i.e. those whose objectives are to share information using the Internet have
significant difficulties in sustainability, scalability and ability to replicate.