CHAPTER 22 INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN REFORMING NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS IN CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF GEORGIA 1 Tugrul Temel Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome Ajit Maru Hyderabad University, India Rainer Krell Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome INTRODUCTION Role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in enabling technological, organizational, institutional and policy innovations has been highly recognized in developing countries. Yet, in transition economies such as Central Asian countries, the development and use of ICT in research and innovation systems remain unexploited. In poorer developing countries such as South Asia and Sub-Saharan African ICT has shown to have contributed to fostering development by increasing the access of information and knowledge to the decision-makers and end-users. In this chapter we present a case study of the role of ICT in Georgian agricultural sector in promoting technology generation, adoption and institutional and policy reforms. It seeks to assess the needs of national agricultural research institutions and their relevant partners for innovative, appropriate, and efficient information and communication systems and linkages in Georgia.