The project participants also noted that state-local system projects face important barriers to success. Among them are:

• A general lack of education and information about both technology and programs
• Lack of a shared, reliable computing and network infrastructure
• Goals that are too ambitious for the resources available to achieve them
• Human and organizational resistance to change
• Unrealistic time frames
• Organizational, programmatic, technological, and legal complexity
• Changing priorities
• Overlapping or conflicting missions among the participating organizations