The advent of technology and modern techniques of communication is of the present world characteristics and its effect on development and improvement of countries is to the extent that it is called the silent revolution. Internet as a media and information technology as an industry are of great importance. The issue of electronic cities and villages which are the subset of information society thought has been raised in the world in the recent years. Today, development and improvement of communities and organizations are due to the emergence of proper beds and the most important of them is information and communications technology, regardless of concerns about the location and their distance with centers of civilization, capital and equipment, it is possible by relying only on their knowledge and management abilities. Different countries, consistent with their present conditions, have taken new policies in the field of ICT development in rural areas; Iran along with many of the leading countries of the world has taken actions towards rural ICT development and by signing the Declaration of Principles of the Information Society in Geneva is committed to being of great influence in the structure of information society. Since 31.54% of the population of the country live in villages and a huge capital of the country lies in villages and since villages and villagers are the basic resources of national production and economic growth in any society, it can be inferred that taking advantage of information and communication technology (ICT) leads to the empowerment and conscious influence of this forgotten stratum in the process of rural development of the country and considering rural ICT can be of great affect in different dimensions of rural sustainable development. ICT in rural areas can be included in the concept of empowerment and empowerment may include different aspects such as education, health, marketing and trade, income, tourism, interest, etc. In this research, we tried to pay great attention to the University of Shoushtar Research Journal/ 9 importance and role of ICT in rural areas, and at the end, the village Shahkooh has been noted as a successful example in the development and application of ICT in the country. Conducting Methods of this study is descriptive, analytic and data collection is of library sort and document-based.