The developed world has well developed ICT infrastructure which contributes to agricultural information knowledge sharing and linkage. However in Ethiopia and similar countries ICT development in rural areas is still in its early stages to heavily depend on it for extension even if it is beginning to be used in various capacity building programs. ICT can be applied in extension by creating online extension services for diagnosis of production problems, provision of information on new technologies and marketing etc., continuous learning for extension workers, facilitation of networking, interactive communication and partnership among the extension and research system among others.

Internet speeds and cell phone coverage is increasing rapidly in Ethiopia where even rural areas people are using it to access market information for their produce. In addition the connecting of communities to electricity is expanding into rural areas. This coupled with the emerging of rural towns and expansion of the road infrastructure is expanding the opportunities for use of ICT in extension. More recently social media have been found to have great potential and can be used for the facilitation of knowledge sharing and collaboration in agriculture.