(I am interested in genuinely transformative initiatives such as Ethereum, but that is far more than just a blockchain).
Two transformative initiatives that have influenced education policy around the world in recent years have been: 1) the UN Millennium Development Goals and, 2) the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment PISAA).
Of all the "innovative" and "transformative" initiatives being trumpeted throughout the city, here is one that should never be the least of these.
Establishing a House of Hospitality is one of the most transformative initiatives that a church can take on to be present, relevant and supportive.
Amy Larkin, author of Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy, is an award-winning environmentalist and entrepreneur and has led transformative initiatives with multinational business and Greenpeace.
My initial invitation from the folks at Huffington placed special emphasis on the "what's working" message, seeking to feature positive and transformative initiatives that highlight the good, where other media might highlight the bad.
It is sensible because it will revert the trend of economic development and investment being coupled with carbon emissions; it will present an opportunity to allow for local entrepreneurship to flourish, by stimulating creative transformative initiatives that will provide the ground for a sustainable and just development.
The first part of the plan, known as the transformative technology initiative, will cost $7.8 billion over five years.
To avoid a leadership gap, and to combat global warming, we need a transformative energy initiative equal to a moon shot.
With funding from the Economic and Social Research Council's Transformative Research initiative, we conducted a study involving people living in homes, female spouses of men with dementia who lived in a home and 16 care staff in north-west England, between May and August 2014.
