Agriculture research is one of the important part that propel the industry moving forward. ICT enable the research entities, such as national research centers, universities, country institutions to partner with more stakeholders to achieve the development goal. With ICT, the information could flow to multiple directions, more accessible to related parties and could targeted to specific locations that the researching companies need. For example, in the innovative research, institutions are always searching ways to help small scales farmers with their problems. ICT could make it easier to connect with these target farmers and understand their needs and also gain real-time data from them, making the research more relevant and effective to the problem. ICT also help the institutions to connect with other experts or stakeholders including private sector, policy makers, regulators, technical experts and so on. These all speed up the research process and make it more effective since the researchers don't have to spend tons of time getting information by physically meeting every stakeholders.
Also, traditionally, agricultural research are mainly delivered through reports or journal articles. However, ICT made the research more accessible and open by sharing the knowledge and process within the organization during the research process of design, formulation and other steps. This allows other parties to comment, discuss and question about the research, facilitating a collaboration. Web 2.0 tools and social media helped researchers to hear feedback from different stakeholders before the research finished.
