AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards
Established in 2011, the AbilityNet Tech4Good Awards:
- Celebrate people and organisations who are using digital tech to make the world a better place
- Inspire people to use digital tech to make the world a better place
- Nurture the people, organisations and networks using digital tech to make the world a better place
Since we created the Tech4Good Awards in 2011 we have celebrated over 100 amazing winners who are tackling a huge range of social issues, such as disability inclusion, digital poverty, health, education, sustainability and much more. Their stories are inspiring and we continue to connect with and support their work in whatever way we can.
In previous years our award categories have included: 
- Accessible Education Award
- Ageing Society Award
- AI for Good Award
- Community Impact Award
- Inclusive Health Award
- Independent Living Award
- Sustainability Award
- Digital Volunteer of the Year Award
- Workplace Inclusion Award
How to enter
The Awards are open internationally to any individual, business, charity, start-up, public body, or other organisation or individual that is using technology for good. You can nominate yourself or someone else, and you can submit more than one nomination in the same or different categories.
Visit the Tech4Good Awards website
How to win a Tech4Good Award
Our How to Win a Tech4Good Award 2023 webinar provided the chance to meet a past winner, and offered some useful pointers on what the judges are typically looking for.
Past winners of the Tech4Good Awards
Since 2011, the Tech4Good awards have celebrated over 100 amazing winners across multiple sectors who are using tech in innovative ways to make the world a better place.
Be My Eyes
Be My Eyes is a free mobile app that connects blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers and companies through live video calls. Utilising the 6,509,484 volunteers that have signed up (so far!) the app harnesses the power of generosity, technology and human connection to help blind and low vision people lead more independent lives.
In 2018, Be My Eyes won the AbilityNet Accessibility Award at the Tech4Good Awards.
Following the win, Alexander Hauerslev Jensen of Be My Eyes stated “Winning the Tech4Good Accessibility Award has been incredible. Being a part of the Tech4Good Awards allowed us to connect with partners and investors, as well as all sorts of inspiring people who all work to make the world a better and more inclusive place.”
Read more from Be My Eyes and their experience at the Tech4Good Awards.
HUG by Laugh
Developed with researchers from Cardiff Metropolitan University. HUG by Laugh is a sensory product designed to bring comfort to individuals living with dementia. HUG by Laugh was a Tech4Good Award winner in 2020.
Since the Awards, HUG has gone from strength to strength.
The Tech4Good Crowdfunding programme raised the money to build a prototype of HUG soft device for people living with dementia and in 2022 the device went on sale in Argos and Amazon.
Read more about HUG and how the Awards helped catapult the organisations growth.
Cosmic
Set up 25 years ago Cosmic (an acronym for the Centre for Ottery St Mary's Internet Café) is a Social Enterprise that specialises in digital skills training, IT technical support, digital consultancy and website development. 
Cosmic won a Tech4Good Award in 2013 for their work helping communities in the South West to overcome digital exclusion.
Julia Hawker, Joint Chief Executive at Cosmic, said “for me, the really, really vitally important thing that that award meant for us was, yes, testament to all the work we've done by them, but also credibility that you know, having that award at that time."
"It made so much difference to our credibility regionally and nationally, that you know, the profile of the organisation the credibility of the work we have completed and we're about to start on was just strengthened ten-fold.”
Find out more about Cosmic by listening to Julie Hawker on the AbilityNet Podcast.