A successful North-South collaboration, grounded in the five principles outlined in the transfer framework above, can ensure transferability and program sustainability, while enabling improvements within a delivery system even as the system changes over time.
If, through international collaboration, a ground force can be agreed, the situation would be different.
With a sea change (partly generational, mostly philosophical) overtaking architecture, and attention turning from glamorous buildings and celebrated designers to broader issues like urbanism, public space, social responsibility and collaboration, "Common Ground" is well intended but, alas, a missed opportunity.
It covers their three major collaborations: the ground-breaking "Sunday in the Park With George," one of the great theatrical works about the making of art; "Into the Woods," the crazy quilt of fairy tales that discovered rough but necessary life lessons embedded within the stories; and "Passion," the quasi chamber opera about obsessive love that has grown in stature as the years have passed.
However, the Syrian armed opposition is almost wholly dominated by Isis and its al-Qaeda equivalents, so the US does not want to damage the successful collaboration between YPG ground troops and US air power.
That's not to say it was easy -- the scene in "Pole to Pole" showing wild dogs on the hunt took over 50 hours of flight time to capture, in collaboration with a ground crew.
Dialogue at an inter-sectoral level should lead to more formal planning and inter-agency collaboration on the ground between statutory and non-statutory agencies and within the health services.
The aim of a hackathon is to bring together researchers with complementary skills and knowledge; they then work together to create an initial scientific write-up and research plan, which can provide the momentum needed to get a new collaboration off the ground.
Such collaborations provide fertile ground for new ideas and the potential for large-scale shifts in the marketplace.
