David Paris | Communications, Media, Digital and Privacy Strategist

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I use language, digital tools, platforms and systems to work with people to try to make the world a bit nicer.

The puppies here aren’t especially relevant, except they make the world a bit nicer too.
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About Me

I’m an accomplished media, communications and policy professional with nearly 20 years experience across almost every facet of environmental and social change advocacy. I’ve worked on major campaigns with organisations operating across Europe, North America and Australia.

What I Can Do

Because I enjoy many aspects of campaigns and advocacy work, I am just as happy and effective running and optimising a small donor and action email campaign day-to-day as I am working within or coordinating a larger communications team to deliver the right messages at the right times through the right channels. I can help you assess your systems and personnel needs, expand a new team, operate inside an existing team or provide skills and capacity you don’t presently have in-house. I take on quick jobs that take a few hours and major projects that may require months. Nothing is too big or too small.

I can offer you and your organisation:

Communications Strategy

I can assist you or your organisation to develop effective campaign messaging and media strategy. I’ll work with your campaign from initial planning and development, through to implementation, refinement, analysis and final assessment.

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Digital Tools and Systems

I’ll work with you to find the best systems for your needs. Technology platforms and tools for advocacy change rapidly. I have years of experience with most of these systems and familiarity with many, many more.

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Privacy and Digital Human Rights

Privacy is under threat from increasingly invasive power of governments and digital platforms exploiting our personal information for billions of dollars in advertising revenue, all with little accountability for them and virtually no recourse for us.

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Supporter and Data Management

It’s been said data is the new oil. You need to make the most of what you have, deploy it in the most effective way, and be well prepared in the event of a spill…

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clients

I have collaborated with some remarkable organisations, large and small, in Australia and overseas. Read more about the work here.

Writing

I’ve written strategies, messaging guides, privacy policies and many other internal documents for organisations I’ve worked with. I’ve ghostwritten speeches and opinion pieces published in every major outlet in Australia.
I also occasionally submit my own pieces. You can read a selection of those I’ve had published here.

Writing

Government’s secrecy war makes us less safe

Commonwealth governments have spent 20 years inverting the essential relationship between people and their government regarding transparency and privacy, and it has left us more vulnerable.

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Facebook lets the world burn

Attempting to prop up the media sector while reigning in the tech giants with one bill was always going to be chaotic.

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COVID-19 must not normalise digital surveillance

After a huge campaign to encourage every smartphone user in Australia to install…

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Contact Me

If you’d like to learn more about my previous work, or there’s anything I can help you with, reach out at any time. I usually respond to most inquiries within a day. For other ways to get in touch, including my socials accounts, encrypted email and other services, visit the contact page.