- SWIFT runner up for ‘Words over Weapons’ mobile game, 2008
- The Stockholm Challenge finalist for ‘NairoBits’, 2006
- US Tech Awards Nominee, for ‘Butterfly Works’, 2006
- WSIS Youth Awards, for ‘NairoBits’ 2005
- Business in Development challenge, for children’s book, 2005
- Golden Nica Award, Prix Ars Electronica and UN New York and Linz, Austria for ‘The World starts with Me’, 2004
- APC Hafkin Award for women and ICT, South Africa, for NairoBits, 2002
- World Bank Award: Innovative ICT solutions for developing countries, for NairoBits, 2001
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