Grants and awards of more than AUD$1,800,000 equivalent since 2010, including:

• Awesome Foundation for the Arts & Sciences Fellowship (US$1,000) (2010)
• Flinders University Research Fellowship in Rural, Remote and Humanitarian Telecommunications ($360,000) (2010-2014)
• Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship (USD$400,000) (2011-2012)
• Global Security Challenge Grand Finalist and Honourable Mention (2013)
• Technology Challenge for Atrocity Prevention: Winner, communications category (2013)
• National Science Week Grants (AUD$500, AUD$2,000, AUD$2,500 and AUD$2,500) (2010-2014)
• Women's and Children's Hospital Research Project (AUD$10,000) (2012)
• South Australian Young Tall Poppy (2012)
• New America Foundation Grants and Contracts (AUD$124,400, AUD$101,296 and US$85,000) (2011-2014)
• OpenITP Grants (US$40,000 and US$30,000) (2012-2014)
• CAESIE Priming Grants (EUR3,000 and AUD$5,000) (2013-2014)
• NLnet Foundation Grants (totalling EUR110,000) (2011-2015)
• US-AID Grant (US$42,863) (2014-2015)
• Radio Free Asia Grant (US$101,000) (2016)
• Pacific Humanitarian Challenge winner (AUD$279,000) (2016)
• Gold and two Silver Lions at Cannes International Festival of Creativity, as part of Saatchi & Saatchi entry (2016)
• DEWC secure satellite communications protocol design (AU$30,000) (2018)
• NLnet Foundation resilient communications projects (EUR90,000) (2019)
• Safety from Space secure satellite protocol design for search and rescue (AU$60,000) (2020)