We replaced the Computer Network with a system of mobile phones were basically farmers could individually send text messages, inquire about the harvest and then get the results back. We did a pilot and we found the farmers really enjoyed the interaction. They like to get it privately on their own. We log queries as early as 3 a. M. When many farmers get up. Over all we estimated if the cooperative were to use the system in all 54 of the villages it operator in, that it could save 25,000 a year which is not significant, but enough that it would change the way it operates, possibly back to the farmers. Ultimately, we were not able to get his pilot to run in the remaining villages because there was rivalry between the people we worked with and the managing director. It seemed like he helped some kind of threat with this technology that was being promoted by the i. T. Department. You might think thats an exception. This is a situation with the technology solves the problem there was some institutional dysfunctions that did not allow the technology to work. In other projects ive found with education where we had again Interesting Technology projects, but as we tried rolled out beyond Research Pilot we ran into very common and stubborn problems of things like administrators not really being