Digital Leaders has announced the finalists of its 6th Digital Leaders Impact Awards 2022 celebrating UK tech for good.
The Digital Leaders Impact Awards celebrate the digital technology innovations that improve people’s lives and the world around. “With almost 500 entries this year, the competition was fiercer than ever before,” highlighted the award organiser.
2022 FINALISTS
There are three finalists for each award. Finalists include (by category):
Digital Poverty Award – for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology to support and promote inclusion and access to tech that has reduced under-represented groups and digital poverty:
- Castlemilk Digital Inclusion Project
- Greater Manchester – fix the digital divide
- Staying Connected, North Herts & Stevenage
Education Award – for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology to transform both teaching and learning in schools, colleges and universities:
- Glean
- Overleaf
- Project EVOLVE
Employment & Skills Award – for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology to change ways into work, work itself, or initiatives supporting skill training and access to talent:
- myGwork
- futureproof
- School of Code
Mental Health & Wellbeing Award is for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology to improve mental healthcare and wellbeing or raise awareness of it as an issue:
- Baby2Body
- Hub of Hope
- Kooth
Tech for the Planet Award – for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology to help people and organisations to manage and understand environmental change, or to live more sustainably.
- BT Green Tech Innovation Platform
- Moata Carbon Portal
- Recycleye Vision and Robotics
HealthTech Award is for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology to drive up the adoption of health technologies and devices to benefit patient outcomes:
- Healum
- HN
- Patchwork Health
Social Transformation Award for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology that make a positive social impact on society:
- Beat the Street
- Safe & the City
- The Joy Club
Pandemic Innovation Award – for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology which has had a positive impact on the lives of those affected by the pandemic:
- NHS COVID Pass
- The Welsh Immunisation System
- vCreate secure video technology
Business Transformation Award – for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology to help business to become more effective, happier and healthier places to work:
- Collective Benefits
- Ethical Intelligence Associates
- Umazi
Financial Inclusion Award – for an organisation, service or initiative leveraging technology to make it easier for people to save and spend, enhancing access to and increasing the quality of financial services:
- Fair4All Finance
- Salad Money
- untied Lite
Social Enterprise Award – for a business changing the world for the better:
- Hey! Food is Ready
- Lightning Social Ventures
- ‘Realise Your Potential’ Programme
Net Zero Award – for an organisation that in the past 12 months has leveraged technology to substantially reduce their carbon emissions, on its goal towards reaching net zero:
- Cabinet Office – Procurement Policy
- Mobilityways
- Riverford Organic Farmers
Individual Impact Award – for an individual doing outstanding work in the field of social impact technology:
- Celia Hodson, Founder, HeyGirls
- Elisabeth Rochford, Head of Social Impact, Virgin Media O2
- Mattie Yeta, Head of Sustainability, DEFRA
Voting for the Impact Awards People’s Choice is now open. This coveted award recognises the most popular of this year’s finalists, with a public vote. Voting is open until the 9th of March, with the award presented at the awards ceremony at London’s Ministry of Sound on the 10th of March. Vote for your favourite here.
Check out the winners of the latest Diversity in Tech Awards here.
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