for example the productive territories programme in mexico which critically relies on experts to implement business plans suffers from shortage of staff in regions the kiut programme also proved difficult to implement because of the wide range of skills required to field workers as they were requested to act simultaneously as mentors community workers and loan agents such experts have a good knowledge of local conditions that might hinder adequate deployment of programmes and of how to address them and are likely to be more committed to the objectives of the programme the ict solutions may include online databases maintained by central or regional bodies to register experts and online platforms