In 2005, the Greater New York Hospital Association and the United Hospital Fund launched a collaborative initiative to eliminate CLABs in hospital intensive care units (ICUs).
Caitlin Vander Weele, a graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences, launches a collaborative neuro-art pictorial magazine.
A group of German volunteers has launched a collaborative online phrasebook to help refugees cope with their arrival in the country.
In 2009, the Guardian launched a collaborative experiment with community translation site Yeeyan, which published a selection of Guardian stories in Chinese.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT Center for Biomedicall Innovation CBI and Center for International Studies CISCIS) are launching a collaborative research project with a focus on enhancing regulatory science in pharmaceuticals.
Morpho (Safran group) and French engineering school Telecom ParisTech (part of Institut Telecom) have launched a collaborative research centre, the IDentity & Security Alliance (The Morpho and Telecom ParisTech Research Center), to address the technological challenges of identity protection and data security.
"There is a real desire by users to share URLs with collaborators in real time," says Meredith Ringel Morris, a computer scientist in the adaptive systems and interaction group at Microsoft Research, who launched a collaborative search tool called SearchTogether last year.
The new institute – aiming to create "an industrial revolution in biological engineering" – is launching a collaborative effort with its first Industry Member, Agilent Technologies Inc., a leader in measurement technologies and products to advance science and engineering research.
In advance of summer road trip season, Lexus Magazine has launched a collaborative novel, "In the Belly of the Beast," which seems to be about a young-ish new hire at Google who prepares for the move out West by buying herself a "sweet Lexus sedan" and hitting the highway with her morose anthropologist fiancé.
She helped form a public corruption task force, battled white collar crime, drafted legislation, spearheaded an initiative to revise the Navajo criminal code, and launched a collaborative, annual Public Safety Summit that pulls Navajo governmental partners together to focus their limited, existing resources on maximum impact in reducing violence, substance abuse, and suicide on the Nation.
