david madden
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Partnerships & Innovation @LuminateGroup Founder @Phandeeyar Co-founder @Purpose @Avaaz @GetUp Host @RevofNecessity. #tech #startups social change
London, UK
Joined November 2008
The damage that @Facebook is doing is now well documented, but not enough attention is being paid to the impact of @WhatsApp. My @OmidyarNetwork colleague @anamitra_deb and I wrote about the threat posed by #WhatsApp & how to address it. v/@techonomy
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*Job Alert!*🔦 Luminate is looking for a Policy Director to lead our policy work on digital threats to democracy. All details below https://t.co/vbHJU6nrqm Please spread the word! cc @luminategroup @GaurivanGulik @SweeLengHarris @Alaphia @davidmadden
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We're hiring! Are you a super talented strategic comms person? Do you want to help build a better internet? Join @martintisne @Alaphia @WatchfulFoxx @SweeLengHarris @GaurivanGulik & the rest of us @luminategroup
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These layoffs are deeply, deeply concerning. From Ethiopia, to the ongoing war to Ukraine. to the upcoming US midterm election - specially during moments of crisis platforms have an additional responsibility to ensure that they respect people's rights. 1/4 @hrw
Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company. I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia,
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*Last chance!* Are you awesome at building coalitions & helping different groups work together? Come & lead @luminategroup's #partnerships work & help expand the funding to build a better internet for all. *Hurry - applications close on 9 October*
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Funders will only succeed in reining in Big Tech & building a better internet by working together. We've set up a new team with that explicit purpose in mind. And we are hiring! Come work w our awesome team https://t.co/iVpIKMhA3H
@GaurivanGulik @davidmadden @EliseTillet
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We're hiring! @luminategroup is looking for someone w/ awesome people skills to lead our partnerships work. Help grow the $$$ needed to build a better internet for all. Work w/@martintisne @GaurivanGulik @SweeLengHarris @EliseTillet @Alaphia @PoppyKWood
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*Awesome job alert* Want to help grow the funding needed to build a better internet for all? @luminategroup is looking for a dynamic professional to lead our partnerships work. No funder experience needed - just exceptional people skills. Come & join us!
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📣📣 Job alert! Interested in social media’s role in conflict around the world? 📱 Our Social Media and Conflict Mediation programme @hdcentre is hiring a Project Officer: https://t.co/PqKYqovSUF 🧵 on what we do:
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On #splicelofi today, we spoke with @yanoak, founder of Thibi, a #dataviz startup in Singapore. We spoke about where dataviz is headed, and what interesting data journalism business models could come out of it. Listen here, or in your podcast app. https://t.co/JtzYAkAVBD
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EXCLUSIVE: AFP has seen the most comprehensive document yet of climate change impacts The draft by the UN's climate science advisors "reads like a 4,000-page indictment of humanity's stewardship of the planet" From @marlowehood @patrickgaley and me https://t.co/jdn6GBLRTO
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Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's...
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Interested in digging into the state of political tech? @highergroundlab have a webinar on 15 June on their latest Landscape Report. Details here
mobilize.us
Higher Ground Labs will convene a short virtual briefing to outline top findings from the newly-published 2020 Landscape Report Several of the report's expert contributors from across the space will...
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We gave up our privacy to fight Covid-19. Can we get it back? In this FT Film, written by playwright James Graham, a suspected Covid-19 super spreader played by Lydia West is interrogated by a data analyst played by Arthur Darvill. Watch the full video: https://t.co/8OH3bR7Dkd
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Honor the memory of George Floyd by taking part in the Virtual Day of Action. Learn how at https://t.co/Seg87qvOCb.
#JusticeforGeorge #BlackLivesMatter
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Political tech continuing to boom
We're thrilled to release our Annual Political Tech Landscape Report! We hope this report will serve as a resource for progressive campaigners and technologists. Read more here:
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A must read piece
Collective data rights can stop big tech from obliterating privacy - Protecting individual data is not enough when the harms are collective. My new piece in @techreview
https://t.co/2MoseTTEuY (1)
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Excited to announce @luminategroup's investment in @UptrustOfficial, a civic tech company centering the rights & needs of justice-involved individuals to keep people out of jail and increasing success for returning citizens
We’re honored to announce that we’ve closed a $2M seed financing round, backed by @de_carceration, @luminategroup, and @stand_together. This funding will enable us to support more individuals navigate and successfully exit the criminal justice system.
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