While pursuing connectivity among innovators as well as with the scientists and technologists, we realise several problems:
one) the feed back loop of scouting innovation, publishing it in a newsletter, feed back from readers in different parts of the world and the country and the ability of the innovator to incorporate it in his/her innovation to improve its use, takes a long time due to limitation of quarterly publications in six languages shared in textual mode. The cycle will some times take very long time to complete.
Second) the cases where a person faced a real life problem, she/he would send it to us, we would write about it, readers, including the innovators, will read about it and then send their suggestions. We might publish it the next issue and that might take even a year and some time more. By that time the problem itself might have been solved, or problem might have disappeared.
Third) those who did not read the magazine that is were not subscribers but lived in close neighbourhood of the innovator or subscribers of Honey Bee or its local language versions did not have sufficient incentives for participation in the network.
Fourth) new members in the villages who might be skeptic and could not even think about becoming member in past seeing the inability of network to solve the problems, or augment solutions could not become members because of weaker dissemination of information (except in Shodh Sankals, club of experimenters meeting) and
fifthly) the participation of women among whom, literacy levels are lower than male farmers were some how not included enough, seventh) the illiterate male farmers also could not draw upon the HB data base adequately because of limitations of printed word.