1) identifying,
analyzing, and fulfilling the needs and requirements of stakeholders for
applications, policies, standards, and information;
2) testing, evaluating, verifying, and
demonstrating commercial ready applications;
3) rapidly developing promising,
high-priority applications to commercial-ready status, when needed;
4) addressing important legal, risk
management/insurance, regulatory, access/privacy, financial, and other
issues;
5) developing voluntary standards and
codes to help insure the interoperability, harmonization, and integration of
technologies and systems;
6) creating individual and public
computer-based training, distance learning programs, information exchange
forums and other public outreach capabilities for application user and
provider communities and other stakeholders.