2022
Businessaward for Uppsala County

The jury’s motivation (translated from Swedish): “The jury sees growth potential in this digital tool, which was developed for the best of purposes. With this award, we want to encourage and support the company on its journey from startup to scaleup.”

2021
Women in tech
Sofie Wahlström

The jury’s motivation: “A person in a digital position within Tech industry, who has demonstrated successful results in the area of digital innovation in the last 24 months.”

2021
Företagarna - Bengt Bengtssons SIBA-stiftelse

The jury’s motivation (translated from Swedish): "The scholarship recipients have tackled a fundamental problem in society with new technology. As inspiring social innovators, they have created a digital safety net that provides tools to a vulnerable target group. An excellent example of how entrepreneurship can lead the way for a stronger society.”

2020
CIO Sweden
The jury’s motivation (translated from Swedish): ”When innovation and humanity meet technology, lives are saved. In the wake of the pandemic, domestic violence has escalated rapidly. The ability to coordinate data from many sources to help victims of violence, and by empowering the public sector and support organizations with the ability to predict and act on rising levels of violence contributes to tangible societal benefits. This year’s digital inspirations stand for a perfect combination of social entrepreneurship, innovation, and smart use of data.“

CGI
2020
Sofie Wahlström

The jury’s motivation (translated from Swedish): "With impressive actionable power and an attitude that everything is possible, our winner works with equality in a wide perspective. For a better society for many people – regardless of gender, age or background. She finds new platforms and connects society's different disciplines with technology as a springboard."

2020

Stipendium

The jury’s motivation (translated from Swedish): "During the Covid pandemic, it became clear that society lacks coordination across organizational borders. It is particularly noticeable in the coordination of resources for victims of domestic violence. The number of emergency calls from women exposed to domestic violence and calls from children who speak about fights and violence at home has increased significantly during the pandemic.

This year's Göran Bredinger scholarship holder, BrightAct aims to help people living with domestic violence in Sweden and globally. They do this by streamlining and coordinating support and efforts that can give vulnerable people access to important social safety nets. BrightAct's founders Sofie Wahlström and Elinor Samuelsson, are committed and motivated social entrepreneurs who in a short time, with innovative global co-creation, have developed thoughtful technology packaged in an app. Already, pilot projects show great potential for BrightAct to contribute to solving several societal challenges related to domestic violence and the coordination of resources."

2020
Hackathon

BrightAct winners of best scalable serverless technology. Effective use of technology to build an application based on serverless principles and architectures. Radical innovation of features previously not seen in systems. Easy to navigate for users to achieve their goals efficiently. High potential influence in an area for competitive advantage, widespread use and market reach.

2020
Hackathon

BrightAct, one of the winners, is creating a path to sustainability and helping the nonprofit sector leverage innovative technologies to meet current and future challenges. These solutions will help the nonprofit sector engage the public to fundraise donations and deliver on their missions.

2020
Hackathon

BrightAct awarded by the EU Innovation Council as an innovative technical solution with the potential to accelerate social and political cohesion in Europe. Winner of EU vs Virus - the biggest hackathon in the world with more than 21,000 participants in 3,500 teams. The winner BrightAct, an initiative from Sweden, offers a free application that provides support and information for those living in a violent relationship or worried about domestic violence during the isolation of the pandemic.

2020
Hackathon

The digital tool BrightAct got an impressive placement during The Global Hack, an online event with around 12,000 participants from all over the world, which aimed to solve the Covid crisis through the possibilities of digitalization. The vision is for BrightAct to be used globally. They are revolutionizing the way we work with difficult issues like this. How we get all different types of organizations to work together towards the same goal.

2020
Hackathon

BrightAct is an idea to save lives that progressed after the Swedish hackathon Hack the Crisis on April 3-6, 2020, a record online hackathon that gathered over 7,000 participants and resulted in over 530 contributions to find societal solutions and overcome covid. The hackathon was carried out by DIGG and the Swedish Government as part of Hack for Sweden. A good example of how citizens, companies, civil society and other stakeholders can be involved in data-driven co-creation of social benefits.