Bringing digital skills, events and webinars to local communities
Community Impact Award
JamPackedUK supports the teaching of digital skills and the development of the teaching of computing, providing inspiring and engaging experiences for learners of all ages and backgrounds. Targeted at areas...
Granset.com: Supporting over 50s get online
Digital Skills Award
Through free online guides, a public forum and video content, Gransnet.com is showing the over 50s that the internet connects people, with a wealth of knowledge, support, advice and entertainment...
Supporting LGTBQ teenagers with a free app
Young People’s Award 2015
Josie Baldwin, Emily Bowes, Katie Griffiths and Alexandra Hill, all aged 14, are the team behind the I’m Okay app. The girls wanted to build an app to support teenagers,...
Open Bionics create affordable, accessible 3D printed limbs
Accessibility Award 2015
Open Bionics is revolutionising healthcare by using 3D scanning and 3D printing to dramatically cut the cost of fitting hand amputees with robotic prosthetics. Bionic limbs can cost anything from...
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,...
3 words to address the world
BT Ingenious Award 2015
Around 75% of the world suffers from inadequate addressing systems – around 4 billion people. An address means that people can receive vital deliveries and aid, disease can be reported...
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...
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...
Jimmy Wales
Tech4Good Special Award 2014
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales won the Tech4Good Special Award, for inspiring others to use technology for good. Wikipedia is a not for profit project written and edited by millions of...
