{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:DavidMadden.jpg|thumb|upright|Madden in 2007]] --> '''David Madden''' is an Australian [[entrepreneur]] associated with [[Progressivism|progressive]] causes. He is a co-founder of [[GetUp!]] a web-based political movement, and [[Avaaz]], a global advocacy movement. He is passionate about rock climbing. In 2015, Madden founded [[Phandeeyar]], a technology [[Startup accelerator|seed accelerator]] based in [[Yangon]], [[Myanmar]].
==Early life and education== Madden grew up in [[Canberra]] and served as an [[Australian Army|Army]] officer before studying Arts and Law at the [[University of New South Wales]] in [[Sydney]]. Madden excelled in the law of the sea. Madden served as president of the [[University of New South Wales Student Guild]].<ref name="weaving">{{cite news | title=Weaving a new type of web | work=Sun-Herald | date=4 April 2010 | author=Thomson, Owen}}</ref>
After winning the University Medal in History, Madden was awarded [[Fulbright Scholarship|Fulbright]] and Frank Knox scholarships to study at [[Harvard Kennedy School]] at [[Harvard University]], where he completed his [[master's degree]] in public policy.<ref name="weaving" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/capital-and-labor-want-some-respect/2005/07/31/1122748527177.html|title=Capital and Labor want some respect|work=theage.com.au|date=1 Aug 2005|author=Misha Schubert}}</ref><ref name="actpoll">{{cite news | title=Activists get up ACT poll website; Movement says it's a civic force, not a front for Labor | work=Canberra Times | date=6 July 2008 | author=Skotnicki, Tom}}</ref> He met [[Jeremy Heimans]], with whom he later co-founded [[GetUp]] and [[Avaaz]], waiting for a scholarship interview panel while studying at Harvard.<ref name="weaving" /><ref name="actpoll" /><ref>{{cite web|quote=online activist group GetUp! was set up in 2005 by two Australian Harvard graduates, Jeremy Heimans and David Madden, who had worked in the US with the online activist group MoveOn.org. GetUp! now has 281,000 members online.|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/getup-pioneer-goes-global-on-internet-politics/2008/07/06/1215282652802.html|title=GetUp! pioneer goes global on internet politics|author=Damien Murphy|date=7 Jul 2008|work=smh.com.au}}</ref> Madden and Heimans became involved in the Harvard Living Wage campaign in 2001, and Madden credits it as their first political collaboration.<ref name="weaving" />
==Career== Madden has worked for the [[World Bank]] in [[Timor Leste]], and for the [[United Nations]] in [[Indonesia]].<ref>{{cite news | title=Get up and go; behind the scenes of Australia's most influential lobby group, GetUp! | work=Sunday Herald Sun | date=17 July 2011 | author=Toy, Mitchell}}</ref> He is the co-author of ''Imagining Australia: Ideas for Our Future'' ([[Allen & Unwin]], 2004), with economist turned federal MP [[Andrew Leigh]], Macgregor Duncan, and Peter Tynan.<ref>{{cite news | title=How to iron out volatility | work=Australian Financial Review | date=16 November 2004}}</ref>
In 2004, Madden was one of the founders of Win Back Respect, a web-based campaign against the foreign policy of [[United States]] President [[George W. Bush]].<ref>{{cite news | title=Campaigners' turn to explain | work=The Australian | date=29 August 2005 | author=Milne, Glenn}}</ref> The following year, together with [[Jeremy Heimans]], he co-founded [[GetUp]], a similar campaign against the recently re-elected [[John Howard|Howard]] government in Australia, inspired by what he had seen with [[MoveOn]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite news | title=Lobbyist get up gears up for Senate | work=Sydney Morning Herald | date=1 August 2005 | accessdate=14 February 2015 | author=Dodson, Louise|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/lobbyist-get-up-gears-up-for-senate/2005/07/31/1122748524711.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1430604.htm|title=Website hopes to spark political interest|work=7.30|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|date=4 Aug 2005}}</ref> In 2006, Madden and Heimans were credited by the World E-Government Forum as being among the top 10 people involved in changing the world of the internet and politics.<ref name="weaving" /> He subsequently stepped back from the day-to-day operations of GetUp, but maintained a position on the organisation's board.<ref name="weaving" /> Madden and Heimans subsequently ran a political consultancy in the United States, before co-founding international campaigning outfit [[Avaaz]].<ref name="actpoll" />
In the private sector, Madden is credited with the creation and marketing of TwitterPeek, the world's only mobile Twitter-only device. [[CNN]] named it as one of their top 10 tech fails of 2009.<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/23/tech.fail/index.html CNN:The top 10 tech 'fails' of 2009]</ref>
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== External links == * [http://www.getup.org.au/ GetUp!]
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