App to help blind and partially-sighted people find their way around
Youth Award
This award was a competition for young people from across the country to submit their ideas for how they would use digital technology to make the world a better place....
A farm-based mental health charity using social media to reach supporters
Grow Your Charity Online Award 2013
Established in 1989 Prospects Trust is a charity based on 18 acres of organic farmland at Snakehall Farm in rural Cambridgeshire. It not only grows the best organic produce but...
Dame Steve Shirley – a lifetime of using technology for good
Tech4Good Special Award
Arriving as a refugee from Nazi Germany at the start of the Second World War Dame Stephanie Shirley’s early hardship was a spur to an amazingly successful career in IT. Having...
Helping blind and partially-sighted people use technology
IT Volunteer of the Year
David Bennoson has been helping the RNIB as a volunteer since 1971 and is now part of the RNIB Technology Support Squad as Volunteer Coordinator for Gloucestershire. This is a...
Helping people gain basic IT skills
Local Digital Champions Award
Norman Hunter is an IT tutor by profession, but his vision for supporting Go-On UK and helping people to gain basic IT skills goes way beyond his professional role. Working...
Making cash machines more accessible for blind and partially sighted people
Accessibility Award 2013
Imagine how difficult it is for a blind or partially sighted person to use a cashpoint unaided. It’s an everyday task that many of us take for granted that can...
Cosmic
BT Get IT Together Award 2013
From its base in Devon, Cosmic is a social enterprise that has worked tirelessly to help overcome digital exclusion in the South West for almost 20 years. In that time...
Community radio station built on the web
Community News Award 2012
Radio Free Brighton is run completely by volunteers who use online radio to build a stronger, more diverse, and integrated community. Their programmes focus on education and empowerment, mutual respect...
Child’s i: A virtual charity that saves the lives of orphans in Uganda
Digital Fundraising Award 2012
Child’s i Foundation finds imaginative solutions to the problem of child abandonment in Uganda and has successfully developed a blend of online and offline fundraising. At its heart, the work...
Mobile phones save lives in remote African communities affected by drought
Innovation Award 2012
ActionAid uses mobile phones to provide timely information to the community in Isiolo, a remote part of Kenya badly affected by the drought. ActionAid delivers monthly food supplies to over...
Alison Crerar – IT Can Help
IT Volunteer of the Year 2012
Building a network of volunteers to help disabled people use computers in their home Alison Crerar was as an academic in Computing. Her research and teaching focused on human-computer interaction,...
Delivering better care services through technical innovation and partnership
Working Together Award 2012
Social Care Institute of Excellence, winners of the Working Together Award Get Connected Investment Project is a capital grant scheme. that has distributed almost £12 million to over 1,200 care...
