Applying (ICTs) for Entrepreneurship and Empowering of Rural Women

Abstract

In this article, after state a brief history about complementary of agricultural, industrial and information revolutions in history of humankind, and importance of rural development and human development and situation of women specially rural women in these processes, introduce a brief history of Telecommunication and Internet, importance of ICTs in re-shaping of human societies, concept of empowerment of rural women, situation of women and girls in Iran specially in rural regions, gender and agriculture in information society, loops of household production in rural regions with emphasis on women works, model of empowerment of rural women through employment, different approaches and rationale for supporting women's entrepreneurship in different schools of development and growth, importance of statistics on women's entrepreneurship and problems in data collection, a brief statement of some national and international projects that have focused on ICTs for rural women in different countries and continents, potential strategies and approaches for improving access of women to ICTs, five areas that need to be targeted in any ICTs project to create an environment where women stand to directly benefit from ICTs as much as men, state situation of rural women in Turkey in accessing to ICTs in their development affairs, livelihood information cycle in rural regions, important informational needs of rural people, system elements of implementing ICTs for diffusion of innovations in rural regions, challenges of agricultural sector in new millennium, and situation of ICTs in management of development process. in the end of article, conclusion and recommendations from discussions in situations of Iran, specially rural regions and women in those conditions. This article is part of a research titled: ((Studying role of co-operatives in entrepreneurship and agricultural development in conditions of globalization of economics (Case Study: south – khorasan province)) that by the author have been done in Islamic Azad University_ Birjand Branch – Birjand. Iran.