Dispatch App saves time and lives in London
Digital Health Award
London’s Air Ambulance delivers an advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London, responding to, on average, 2,000 people every year. Time is a critical factor in helping to...
Teaching accessibility and tech, despite losing her sight
Young People’s Award 2015
Beth Deer is 16 years old, and last year she went completely blind. She received a BrightSpark scholarship through youth-led charity Young Pioneers, and is now studying to be a...
Barclays Bank team up with SignVideo to make banking more accessible
Accessibility Award
People who are deaf or hard of hearing and use British Sign Language (BSL) used to have to rely on family or friends, or a pre-booked interpreter, to communicate with their...
GoodSAM creates a network of lifesavers across the world
BT Ingenious Award
GoodSAM (Smartphone Activated Medic) is a London-based social enterprise, who have created a smartphone alerter and responder app, dispatch system and extensive network of trained doctors, nurses, paramedics and other...
PlusGuidance puts therapy in the patient’s fingertips
BT Ingenious Award
PlusGuidance is an online counselling platform that helps people securely and discreetly connect with a counsellor that’s right for them. Through video-calls, voice-calls and instant messaging, the service is private,...
Talking Birds bring accessibility to the theatre
Accessibility Award
Talking Birds is a small, independent, site-specific theatre company, making work that explores, and seeks to illuminate, the profound and complex relationships between people and place. Established in 1992, they...
Helping to keep Switchboard running
IT Volunteer of the Year Award
Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard is a community organisation and registered charity providing support services run for and by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender people in the heart of the LGBT...
Using technology to keep memories alive
Digital Health Award 2014
Formed in 2009 Alive! activities has pioneered the use of touch screen technology to improve care home residents’ mental and emotional wellbeing. Beneficiaries are people who are very old, often...
A startup evangelist building mobile-friendly education resources
Youth Award 2014
Christopher Pruijsen is a former president of the Oxford Entrepreneurs, an advisor to the Kairos Society non-profit community of young innovators, and co-founder of the innovation programmes Founderbus UK, Middle...
Zubabox brings digital technology to remote areas
BT Ingenious Award 2014
Computer Aid International is a UK registered charity based in North London which refurbishes unwanted IT equipment in the UK and delivers it for reuse in schools, hospitals and charities...
How a university shares technology expertise with its local community
Community Impact Award 2014
De Montfort University’s (DMU) flagship community engagement programme DMU Square Mile is helping connect people with new technology, in areas that need it the most. The project, called IT4Free, allows...
