Highlights from Past Winners

We’ve been consistently blown away by the range and calibre of entries. Here are some of the organisations that sponsors and partners frequently highlight

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Christine Dodds

Tech Volunteer of the Year

Many people with sight loss believe their visual impairment excludes them from using technology. This tech volunteer finalist is showing people with visual impairments that this simply isn’t true. The...

Finalist 2017
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Blood Quest

Digital Health Award

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has produced a free new app for iPad called ‘Blood Quest’, which aims to help alleviate children and young people’s anxiety when they have a...

Finalist 2017
Steve Smith

Steve Smith

Tech Volunteer of the Year

The Collett Special Educational Needs School for children from 4 to 17 years is one of the lowest funded in Hertfordshire. “Many of our children have no access to IT...

Finalist 2017
Sheffield Hallam

Sheffield Hallam

Digital Health Award

Ivan Phelan, is Associate Researcher working in gaming development at Sheffield Hallam University, he’s been involved in this area for the last ten years. “I really like the idea of...

Finalist 2017
Atticus Link

Atticus Link

BT Connected Society Award

Atticus Link is an innovative web app that improves access to legal advice and fosters the communication between various non-for-profit advice provider to streamline an uneven system. Joseph Huang, Justin...

Finalist 2017
#techmums

#techmums

Digital Skills Award

#techmums works with mums in disadvantaged communities to teach them digital skills, build their confidence and help them relate better to their children around technology, Dr Sue Black OBE explained....

Finalist 2017
SignVideo

SignVideo

BT Connected Society Award

SignVideo was born in response to the frustration of the deaf British Sign Language (BSL) community. It can be incredibly difficult to communicate with hearing people and do normal, everyday...

Finalist 2017
One Digital Partnership

One Digital Partnership

Digital Skills Award

One Digital is a unique digital skills partnership that has successfully worked with more than 11,000 people across the UK. “I got a job! Because of the help the Digital...

Finalist 2017
OrCam MyEye

OrCam MyEye

BT Connected Society Award

The worlds most advanced and wearable artificial vision device is helping people regain their independence. MyEye, designed by OrCam, provides advanced text-to-speech from any surface, sign, document or computer. Users...

Finalist 2017
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Green Shoots

Comic Relief Tech4Good for Africa Award

“56% of the children in South Africa live below the poverty line. Education is one of the most powerful weapons available to break the poverty cycle for these children,” said...

Finalist 2017
miFuture Foundation

miFuture Foundation

Community Impact Award

A new app and website targeting young disengaged students, knew that it had to do something differently. “The problem is NOT lack of opportunities. The problem is NOT a lack...

Finalist 2017
Special iApps

Special iApps

Community Impact Award

A mum who couldn’t find educational apps for her son has gone on to build inspirational tech social enterprise which is inspiring others. Special iApps was started in 2011 when...

Finalist 2017