4.2 Factors Influencing Knowledge Sharing

Even if agencies have a clear understanding of the types of knowledge they need to share for successful coordination, there are many factors that can impact the efficacy of their efforts to share that knowledge (See Box 4a). These factors include challenges with interoperability, barriers at the agency level, constraints on the individuals within the agencies, and different systems for interpreting information and developing knowledge. We discuss the aforementioned challenges in the sections below.

Box 4a. Conceptual Diagram of Factors Influencing Coordination of Knowledge Across Agencies