In the spotlight: Comic Relief Tech4Good For Africa Award

In the spotlight: Comic Relief Tech4Good For Africa Award

Tech4Good winners providing life-changing power and water in Africa We are very excited that the Tech4Good Awards are really going global! We’re also really excited to be working with Comic Relief to … Read more

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eWATERPay

30,000 people die each week in Sub-Saharan Africa from drinking unsafe water, despite billions of pounds having gone into installing over 800,000 hand pumps. This is largely due to lack of … Read more

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Camara

To date, 1 million children in Kenya regularly do not attend school, for a variety of reasons. To address this problem, Camara has developed a training approach that focuses on providing … Read more

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Haller Farmers App

In Kenya, there are over 5 million smallholder farmers who often have little prior knowledge of farming techniques, and live on unproductive land. The majority of these farms are run … Read more

Tech4Good in the Developing World

As technology changes, so do the reasons why it’s so important. Over the past year we have seen a new fight for both medical teams and technology experts across the world … Read more

Zubabox brings digital technology to remote areas

Computer Aid International is a UK registered charity based in North London which refurbishes unwanted IT equipment in the UK and delivers it for reuse in schools, hospitals and charities … Read more

An eye care app that is transforming millions of lives

At least 280 million people worldwide are visually impaired, 39 million of these people are blind and yet 80% of blindness is avoidable. Peek is a smart-phone based portable eye … Read more

Affordable solar power for mobile phones

Mobile phones at the bottom of the economic pyramid markets are becoming very valuable because they give people access to opportunities. Subsistence farming adds very little value to an economy … Read more

Childs i Foundation, Digital FUndraising Award Winners 2012

Child’s i: A virtual charity that saves the lives of orphans in Uganda

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 … Read more

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Mobile phones save lives in remote African communities affected by drought

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 … Read more

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