Now in it’s 5th year I was given the huge honour of hosting 2015’s Tech4Good Awards alongside Mark Walker from AbilityNet. The organisations and individuals entered this year have shown incredible imagination, innovation and ingenuity, ensuring inclusion through digital technology.
The panel of judges had a difficult task narrowing down the 150+ entries to just 27, from which the eventual category winners were chosen.
The list below includes all 10 Tech4Good Award winners for 2015, including the Judge’s Award, the Winner of Winners Award (chosen by the guests at the Awards ceremony with an awesome ‘glow stick voting system) and the People’s Award – chosen by the general public through social media voting, which received an amazing 14,000+ votes in total.
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners.
Open Bionics
Winner, 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…
what3words
Winner, 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…
Simon Community Northern Ireland
Winner, Community Impact Award 2015
Set up in 1971, Simon Community Northern Ireland is the leading homelessness charity in Northern Ireland, providing a range of services for people who are homeless or at risk of…
BuddyApp
Winner, Digital Health Award 2015
BuddyApp is a health and wellbeing app that utilises SMS text technology to engage individuals in their care, by recording their mental, emotional and physical wellbeing in-between sessions, by sending…
Apps for Good
Winner, Digital Skills Award 2015
Apps for Good is a free education programme, working to change tech education forever; to turn young tech consumers into tech creators, unlocking the confidence and talent of young people…
Rachael Moat
Winner, IT Volunteer of the Year Award 2015
Rachael Moat is a musician and music teacher who volunteers once a week at Seashell Trust, a school for children with complex needs and severe learning difficulties, including little to…
I’m Okay
Winner, 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,…
EVA Park
Winner, People’s Award 2015
“If EVA Park wasn’t there, I wouldn’t be doing what I do, talk to everyone, going out as well. Went to club on my own two weeks ago. Never done…
Open Bionics
Winner, Winner of Winners 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…
Raspberry Pi
Winner, Judges’ Award 2015
The Raspberry Pi is a low-cost credit-card sized Linux computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. Developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation (Ebem Upton, Rob Mullins, Jack Land and Alan Mycroft), with the support of volunteers, the idea was born in 2006 as a way of addressing the decline in the numbers and skills levels of the A-Level students applying to read Computer Science at university. The primary goal was to teach computer programming to children, and to put the fun back into learning computing.
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