These ideals are difficult to achieve because there are significant barriers to overcome. The project participants identified many problems that state-local projects encounter. These are among the top ranking barriers:

• lack of education and information about technology and programs
• lack of a shared, reliable computing and network infrastructure
• goals that are too ambitious for the resources available
• human and organizational resistance to change
• unrealistic time frames
• organizational, programmatic, technological, and legal complexity
• changing priorities
• overlapping or conflicting missions among participating agencies