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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C the Signs

People's Award

Diagnosing cancer is extremely challenging. Unlike other diseases, there is no single identifiable symptom or test that can alert Doctors to a potential cancer diagnosis. Cancer is a collection of...

Winner 2017
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Fizzyo

Digital Health Award

“Imagine spending hours of your day, every day, battling with your teenage kids to do their physiotherapy. While others play video games, you are telling yours ‘no you can’t go...

Winner 2017
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Bristol Braille

AbilityNet Accessibility Award

The world’s first multi-line digital Braille e-reader “This is not just a hardware project; it’s a labour of love that’s lasted five years. All of us came through either the Hackspace...

Winner 2017
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MomConnect

Comic Relief Tech4Good for Africa Award

Over 1.3 million South African mothers have used MomConnect, on a mobile platform designed to stop mothers and babies dying needlessly. Praekelt.org, founded in 2007, designs and develops mobile technologies...

Winner 2017
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Chatterbox

Community Impact Award 2017

Chatterbox is an online and in-person language tutoring service, delivered and developed by refugees. It brings together refugee talent with people and organisations who need people with excellent language skills....

Winner 2017
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BBC micro:bit

Digital Skills Award

It’s clear that there is a strong and well established need to focus on computing, digital and coding skills within the UK. A number of reports have highlighted this skills gap, including a...

Winner 2016
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Maureen Johnston

IT Volunteer of the Year Award

In 2013, Maureen offered a few days of her spare time to help the newly established charity, The Silver Line with their national launch and to help set up the...

Winner 2016
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Robin Christopherson, MBE

Tech4Good Special Award 2016

Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet, Robin has worked for over 20 years at the UK charity. He is an inspirational public speaker, he’s been a leading global expert on...

Winner 2016
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Neighbourly

BT MyDonate Award

Neighbourly is a simple and unique internet platform that connects community projects and charities with businesses and individuals that can donate time, money or surplus. Their clients include big names like Marks...

Winner 2016
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eWATERPay

BT Young Pioneer Award

30,000 people die each week in Sub-Saharan Africa from drinking unsafe water, despite billions of pounds having gone into installing over 800,000 hand pumps. This is largely due to lack of...

Winner 2016
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Wayfindr

AbilityNet Accessibility Award

Sight loss can lead to isolation, poverty and depression. Almost half of the estimated 2 million visually impaired people living in the UK say they would like to leave their homes...

Winner 2016
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Arnav Sharma

Tech4Good People’s Award 2016

Aged just nine years old, Arnav Sharma studied the cause, diagnosis and effect of asthma and came up with a solution; the AsthmaPi kit. Using a Raspberry Pi hooked up...

Winner 2016