Scenario: multiple organizations connected through shared goals believing collaboration leads to greater impact on their constituents. These organizations are based in different countries around the globe, speak various languages, employ a range of people, and utilize myriad digital communication tools.

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As an analytical thinker, I ponder future outcomes in both home and work life, and the intermediate steps to see transformation from the current to the future state of affairs.

The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data is a global network of governments, NGOs, and businesses working together to strengthen innovative ways that data is used to address the world’s sustainable development efforts. The Global Partnership amplifies current efforts among its Partners and links Partners in new configurations in order to deploy quality data to see the sustainable development goals met. Funders of the Partnership include the Hewlett Foundation and IDRC. The Partnership launched in September 2015 on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly.

The goal of the International Open Data Charter is to foster greater coherence and collaboration for the increased adoption and implementation of shared open data principles, standards, and good practices across sectors around the world. The Charter is a set of agreed-upon open data Principles, based on the G8 Open Data Charter, and officially launched on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 with funding from Omidyar Network, IDRC, and others.

For this project with the Gates Foundation in 2011, a small team from Innovations for Scaling Impact, with me as one of two lead researchers, aided the Foundation’s Global Health measurement, learning, and evaluation (MLE) and Malaria teams to finalize an MLE plan that specifies grant-level sources of data against prioritized scorecard metrics, and the key sources of learning that will facilitate strategic decision-making.

With generous support from the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS (CEPA) focused on overcoming policy and implementation bottlenecks to scaling up prevention of parent-to-child transmission (PPTCT+) and pediatric diagnosis, treatment, and care programs in six focus countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Nigeria, and Mozambique. Innovations for Scaling Impact, between 2009 and 2011, developed monitoring systems and conducted an external evaluation of the project.

In 2010, Randall, as part of Innovations for Scaling Impact, worked with the Packard Foundation on a social network analysis of grantee connections using web crawl techniques. The maps, showing linkages, were then used by Foundation staff in their review of their portfolios.

The Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) was (2025 sunset) a multi-stakeholder action network working to advance and institutionalize global norms and significant, continuous improvements on fiscal transparency, participation, and accountability in countries around the world. Randall started working on GIFT as part of Innovations for Scaling Impact in 2011, and in early 2014 became an independent consultant on GIFT, contracted through the International Budget Partnership, who was acting as the fiduciary host of GIFT, managing funds from the World Bank to support GIFT. GIFT also received funding from the Hewlett Foundation, Omidyar Network, and Metanoia Fund.

Randall, as part of Innovations for Scaling Impact in 2011, assisted the MasterCard Foundation in gaining a better understanding of the ecosystem of actors engaged in two of the Foundation's focus areas. He used a network analysis approach, web crawls in particular, to produce a network map of organizations and accompanying description for Foundation staff to then interrogate and feed into strategy decisions.