4.1.8: COI Funding
Provide Communities of Interest (COI) with Sufficient Funding Other Information:
The most successful communities of interest are those with the delegated authority to accomplish change and the means by which
to do so. In most cases, this means having access to sufficient funding to operate effectively. Having access to the necessary
budget to implement the services, solutions, or other enablers can make all the difference. Different communities will require
different COI models; however it is likely that different COI models will evolve for different patterns of collaboration.
For now, we recommend that agencies examine successful COI models (such as the National Information Exchange Model – NIEM
– and the Gov Benefits E-Gov initiative) and that principal stakeholders be required to invest commensurate with the expected
value of their return. The investments should be used to design, specify, and develop shared services, create service certification
capabilities, or to accomplish the objectives of the COI. Coupled with enforceable Service Level Agreements (SLA) that incorporate
objective service delivery metrics, this will establish the service value exchange that has been lacking in previous cross-agency
collaborative efforts. To facilitate this, it is recommended that organizations develop an enforceable SLA model. (Note -
not all stakeholders are equal. For constituencies whose participation is valuable or even vital but their return from participation
is negligible, the barriers for entry must be made as low as possible.)
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