Given the barriers to sharing information and coordinating between agencies, a participant reported that to locate and assist PWD in the early days after the earthquake she and her colleagues often relied on neighbors in the camps, or even strangers, who would bring information to them about the needs of PWD.
"Reducing barriers to sharing resources in the short-term and long-term is a good thing, but not if the efficiencies that result accrue to a small owner class," added Harris.
Maybe it's the approach of Valentine's Day, but I think there's something to be said for lowering the barriers to sharing appreciation for our favorite people, events, and entertainment in an environment dedicated to making tributes.
As psychological barriers to sharing fall and companies become more deft at leveraging social media, there's a legitimate concern that platforms, like Facebook, will be less valuable without the proper filters.
Their mentality erects barriers to sharing sensitive information with domestic sister agencies, let alone foreign governments.
"Barriers to sharing information must be removed," Jami Miscik, the C.I.A.'s deputy director for intelligence, said in an address to analysts on Wednesday.
Those working counterterrorism matters did so despite limited intelligence collection and strategic analysis capabilities, a limited capacity to share information both internally and externally, insufficient training, perceived legal barriers to sharing information, and inadequate resources.
"We are not brushing aside the agency's duty to protect sources and methods, but barriers to sharing information must be removed".
Largely drafted by the Justice Department, it contained a wish-list of expanded police powers that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had been seeking for years, and lowered perceived barriers to sharing information with intelligence agencies.
What's actually being shared is different, but both features are trying to remove many of the barriers to sharing.
