However, this is the first broad-based initiative of its kind in the US and features a partnership between the community, the federal government, and the high-tech industry.
In parallel, scientists at IRRI are coordinating a broad-based phenotyping initiative and developing a rich set of mapping populations that will complement the genotyping effort described above.
In his book "The Arab Center," for example, former Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Muasher describes a tense episode in 2004 when Jordan was promoting a broad-based Arab initiative to break the deadlock in the Middle East peace process.
One factor was that such stakeholders as the NSSF perceived health insurance to be a project of the MOH rather than a broad-based government initiative [ 40].
This year, NIDA announced the continuation of a broad-based research initiative begun in 2002 to address the epidemiologic, social, behavioral, cognitive, and neurobiological consequences of inhalant abuse, as well as treatment and prevention.
The Obama administration has focused on broad-based initiatives aimed at lowering unemployment in general, while declining to address elevated rates among minority groups.
During yesterday's opening of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) annual meeting, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced a new Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, a broad-based, public-private initiative to provide affordable, efficient stoves to 100 million homes around the world by 2020.
He proceeded with a robust defense of the panel's proposal for a broad-based U.S. diplomatic initiative in the Middle East and renewed engagement with Syria and Iran -- the clear focus of the conservative anger.
Secure Digital Music Initiative: A broad-based industry effort to promote an effective secure format for content providers in the digital music market.
