Sponsored by Microsoft in association with Charity Technology Trust
WINNERS
We Are What We Do/Internet Buttons
www.internetbuttons.org
- Internet Buttons is a web tool that aims to simplify the Internet for new or nervous users. You can create a page with a few simple links and share it with your friends or family, making it easier for them to find what they need online.
Finalists
Hollybank Trust/iMUSE
www.hollybanktrust.com
- Hollybank provides education, intensive medical care, therapy and living support to children and young adults who are severely disabled and have complex learning/communication difficulties. Its iMUSE sessions use interactive music, sound, visual and vibration stimulation experience for therapeutic, educational, recreational and work purposes.
iBreastCheck by Breakthrough Breast Cancer
http://ibreastcheck.com
- The iBreastCheck app encourages women to be more breast aware and is part of Breakthrough Breast Cancer’s mission to share information and advice which helps fight against breast cancer.
Nick Johnson/Pelican-Post
www.pelican-post.org
- Uses the web to improve children’s access to books in Africa. Sign up online, make your donation and then learn more about who is benefiting from your support.
The vinspired apps from v, the National Young Volunteers Service
http://vinspired.com
- A free app to promote volunteering amongst young people. You can look up local volunteering opportunities, keep in touch with the projects you support and learn more about the benefits of volunteering.
The winner will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on 7 June.
The winner of this award will be developing an innovative technical solution to a clearly identified community need, using the internet, mobile phone or other technologies to bring good to the community.
Who is eligible?
This Award is open to any individual, organisation or business based in the UK that is developing an innovative technical solution to a clearly identified community need.
This can include projects, partnerships or activities that make innovative use of computers, the internet, mobile phone or other technologies to bring good to the community. UK based, UK focused organisations are eligible, as well as UK based organisations which do work overseas.
What are we looking for?
The winner will demonstrate an innovative solution inspired by and, where possible, delivered through the people that it benefits.
Projects may be at an early stage, breaking new ground, or building on ideas that have been tried before and learning from what didn’t work as well.
Nominations are now closed and the finalists will be announced on this site on Friday 20 May 2011.
