We’re now down to the last 36 in the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards and we’ve opened up the voting to allow you to have your say on who wins.
On the Digital Heroes web pages you can find out more information about each of the three shortlisted Digital Heroes for 12 regions around the UK. You can vote for one Digital Hero from each region – making 12 votes in total. So please go online and have a look.
The stories about nominees and their dedication and hard work are amazing. Many of these people have worked without pay or in their spare time on a whole range of digital technology-related projects. The common thread, though, is that these projects are aimed at using the internet to help those less fortunate than themselves.
For instance, there’s Joe Cash from The Cedar Foundation, a voluntary organisation delivering services to disabled people in Northern Ireland. He’s designed and pioneered a new computer interface that can be used by severely disabled people to use the internet, write emails and send text messages.
Or there’s Rebecca Helen Pluke, who gave up her job and worked for two years without pay to get her charitable idea off the ground – a community centre near Peterborough that provides IT services to the digitally excluded, and doubles as a valuable social space that different groups (such as new mums or teenagers) can use at various times of the day.
These are just a couple of nominees that jumped out at us straight away, but please take the time to read about them all and vote here. Public voting is open for the next month and the 12 regional winners – each winning £5,000 – will be announced towards the end of October. And then in November I’ll be joined by Martha Lane Fox, the UK’s Digital Inclusion Champion, and Professor Tanya Byron, an expert in children’s behaviour online, to decide the one overall Digital Hero who will win £10,000 to invest in their project.
So have a look and help us decide who should be the first TalkTalk Digital Heroes.
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