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TalkTalk Digital Heroes 2010

December 15, 2010
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Race Online Award winner Natasha with Martha

We all have a hero and we all have the power to become one.


Last week at the House of Lords, Digital Heroes across the country were celebrated for their implementation of bright ideas to bring about positive social change.

Launched by our partners TalkTalk in association with Citizens Online and Trinity Mirror, the awards celebrate outstanding individuals working within UK community groups or charities.

You voted in your thousands – 140,000 were cast to decide the 12 regional finalists.  The ceremony invited them along  to receive their prizes and celebrate the overall winner.

The TalkTalk Digital Hero is…


Ben Richardson who runs the Photography workshop at The Connection at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

The photography workshop is a creative group encouraging homeless people to engage digital media as a platform to help make their voices heard and document their experiences.  According to Ben, it’s a means of “turning people’s often quite negative experiences into positive, meaningful experiences that others can learn from.”  Provided with disposable cameras, they document their personal experiences of sleeping rough on the streets of London.  Have a look at the photos and watch Ben:

Race Online 2012 Award


In addition, this year’s awards also had a special Race Online 2012 category, with the winner chosen by Martha, TalkTalk Chairman Charles Dunstone and Daily Mirror editor Richard Wallace.

The winner is… Natasha Johnson-Richards, founder of Go Digit All, which provides free internet access in her community in the East Midlands. The grant will enable her to provide mobile broadband for the mobile ICT facility, providing outreach services in communities to engage families in e-learning.  Here’s Natasha speaking about what the future holds:

Digital Champions really do have the power to create massive social cohesion and the finalists illustrate the power of digital technology to transform lives.  We want to congratulate all the finalists for their fantastic achievements and thank TalkTalk, Citizens Online and Trinity Mirror for highlighting their missions and helping them go even further.

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  1. wendy permalink
    December 23, 2010 4:54 pm

    I was at the event because I won the Eastern Region Digital Hero.
    We campaign for computers for carers and in this dreadful weather it is even more important that carers are able to get on line, so they can do basic things like ordering groceries.
    A carer’s life can be a lonely one, even in a big city, but having the internet, can give them access to find out where to get help, and the chance to make friends and realize they are not alone.

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