Nicole is a specialist in transparency and accountability issues, particularly with the use of technologies in South/Southeast Asia. Currently, she manages a portfolio at Global Integrity that includes performing in-country research for global investors, developing an experimental innovation fund, and facilitating the networking mechanism of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). Prior to joining Global Integrity, Nicole worked at OneWorld Foundation, India as their Knowledge and Research Manager. At OneWorld, she coordinated research of innovations in public service delivery, access to information and e-governance. Nicole has also worked for Google as a Financial Analyst where she helped to operationalize and maintain their first global internal travel policy. She has a MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics, and a BS/BA in Business Administration and Development Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
What are you doing the day after Halloween? We are hosting an Ideathon in our new OpenGov Hub from 6:30 to 830pm and you should join us. We at Global Integrity understand that many of you have half-baked ideas that you want to present to others for feedback, meld with others’ ideas to make
The Open Government Partnership is officially afoot with the Articles of Governance formally approved and adopted at the first annual meeting in Brasilia last month. With distance gained from the meeting, this is a good moment to take stock of where the Partnership stands and the direction it needs to go. Read more.
As we quickly approach next week’s high-level event in Brasilia, we wanted to take a minute to update readers on the OGP Networking Mechanism (NM). As some readers of this blog know., we at Global Integrity are managing the NM, a service provided to OGP governments through which we introduce governments to some of the world’s leading open government experts (from the public, private, and civic sectors) to help those governments develop more innovative, “stretch” OGP commitments.