Daniel McQuillan

Current

• Digital Guru at Make Your Mark Campaign

Past

• Web Manager at Amnesty International (International Secretariat)
• Project Leader at Multikulti Project
• Senior Consultant at Lasa (London Advice Services Alliance)

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Education

• Imperial College London
• University of Oxford

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Civic & Social Organization

Websites

• My Blog

Daniel McQuillan’s Summary

I'm an internet & social change entrepreneur, both inside and outside of large organisations. I identify opportunities for emerging interactive media to have strategic social impact, and take an agile approach to implementing pilot projects and organisation-changing propositions.

Daniel McQuillan’s Specialties:

internet & human rights (policy and activism)
web and e-communications
e-campaigning and e-activism
web 2.0 (the social web)
the multilingual and multicultural web
open source and free software

Daniel McQuillan’s Experience

• Digital Guru

  Make Your Mark Campaign

  (Civic & Social Organization industry)

  September 2007 — Present (11 months)

• Web Manager

  Amnesty International (International Secretariat)

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

  February 2005 — September 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  Developed internet and e-communications strategy & established new strategic business unit. Led the change from online publishing to strategic e-campaigning. Advocated for internet & human rights policy and headed delegation to the UN's Internet Governance Forum. Responsible for Amnesty's first international viral campaigns and first global blogging. Oversaw Amnesty's entry into MySpace & use of user-generated content.

• Project Leader

  Multikulti Project

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

  January 2001 — February 2005 (4 years 2 months)

  Created international award winning multilingual website for asylum seekers & refugees. Pioneered accessible multilingual online content in the NGO sector through a combination of leading-edge Unicode script and a community-driven translation process.

• Senior Consultant

  Lasa (London Advice Services Alliance)

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

  June 1998 — February 2005 (6 years 9 months)

  Senior web & technology consultancy for the UK voluntary sector including strategy, technology management and software development. Introduced the Circuit Rider model for technical support to the UK voluntary sector. Established a UK collective to advocate for open source in the non-profit sector.

Daniel McQuillan’s Education

• Imperial College London

  Ph.D, Experimental Particle Physics, 1987 — 1992

• University of Oxford

  BA (Hons), Physics, 1984 — 1987

Additional Information

Daniel McQuillan’s Websites:

• My Blog

Daniel McQuillan’s Honors:

Global Ideas Bank Communications Social Innovations Award for 2004
http://www.globalideasbank.org/site/news/index.php?articleId=116