INTEROPERABILITY FRAMEWORK
Interoperability Framework is Set of standards and guidelines which describe the way in which organizations have agreed, or should agree, to interact with each other.
An e-government Interoperability Framework (IF) serves as a foundational document or set of documents that outlines policies, guidelines, and standards for enabling interoperability among government agencies to facilitate the joint delivery of public services.
The interoperability levels related to the sharing of information are mainly classified into:
Organizational Interoperability :(Organizational interoperability is concerned with how different organizations collaborate to achieve their mutually agreed e-government goals.
Semantic Interoperability (Enabling data to be interpreted & processed with the same meaning, etc.)
Technical Interoperability Technical interoperability covers the applications and infrastructures linking systems and services.
Political: In Political context, support and commitment from authority, provisioning of policies / guidelines, strategies over different levels of interoperability are expected.
Legal: Legal factors include legal-power assigned to system for data protection and privacy information of the citizen.
Managerial: For issues like training, motivation, reorientation of concerned staff from public agencies.
Economic: For funding related issues.
Social/Cultural: Social / Cultural factors like differences in culture, working practices, issues of trust, timings, social exclusion issues have more influence.