The F-35 has been developed under a nine-nation, Pentagon-run initiative sharing the jet's $1.5 trillion USD cost (counting everything from development through the 55 year projected life of the planes in the fleet), making it the most expensive military acquisition in history.
The Personal Genome Project (PGP) [ 1] has been a pioneering initiative, sharing genomes for research in a clinical setting.
Qualitative findings also indicated that study participants, on the whole, valued service delivery components advocated in the policy literature: peer support groups; personal planning initiatives; sharing of information and coping strategies; 'lay-led' support; support provided in community settings.
He has considerable expertise in issues relating to landscape scale initiatives, shared resources, collective action and commons across Europe.
The paper has also given several examples of local initiatives, showing that the initiatives share a wide concern about the future state of the world and the ambition to make a difference by local action.
From our empirical account, it can be concluded that the local initiatives share the ambition to regain control of certain aspects of life and the need to share this ambition with others in communities of people, either living close to each other or sharing common ideas and ambitions at distance.
Specifically, they argued, corporate social responsibility initiatives should evolve from pure philanthropy to a set of initiatives shared between the corporation and the communities in which the company operates.
Though diverse, these initiatives share the conviction that sustainable improvements in health cannot be achieved by imposing change on people, but require their active participation.
These include public private linkages via professional exchanges, joint training initiatives, shared use of facilities between public and private providers to maximise resource use, telemedicine, and use of complementary/specialised treatments [ 1, 12].
Authoritarian micro-managers have no place in industries that need workers to use their initiative, share ideas, be creative and excel at self-management.
Proactively minded cities have joined forces; New York and ten others are among the 61 cities around the world that, in partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative, share plans and information to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate.
