Lemos&Crane working with Thames Reach and the Lankelly Chase Foundation presents the Digital Empowerment Awards. A total of £2,500 prize money is offered for projects which utilize the growing potential of digital technologies such as the internet, social media, apps and SMS for the improvement of the lives of homeless people, giving them a voice, enhancing and expressing their capabilities, facilitating peer-to-peer support and making the services they receive more personalised and enabling.
The impact of digital technology on how we communicate, access services, and find information, has radically transformed how we conduct our everyday lives and our relationships with others. Although recent research suggests that most homeless people carry a mobile phone and place great value in internet access, little is known about how these resources can be used. The Digital Empowerment Awards will recognise the potential in harnessing these emerging technologies to improve the lives of excluded people and celebrate those projects whose innovation is supporting and enhancing the lives of vulnerable people.
The panel will award projects in the following categories:
The awards intend to highlight and support UK projects working to empower vulnerable people by uniting them with technology that could redress the power-balance between service providers and service users and embed excluded people within an enriching and supportive social network. Entries will be invited from non-profit organisations such as homeless agencies; supported housing agencies; charities; third sector organisations; housing organisations; local authorities; and other public bodies.
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Silver: For members who have submitted an example or entered an awards programme
Gold: For members who have been a speaker at an event or have won or been shortlisted for an award.
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