Partner organisations

Slivers-of-Time has been driven by a federation of businesses and government.

Key partner organisations are:

	Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now the Dept of Communities & Local Government)	The ODPM provided £0.5m to prepay 2.5 years usage of Slivers-of-Time for local authorities while kick-starting the market.
	London Connects	London Connects, the government's online enabler for the capital oversaw the birth of Slivers-of-Time.
	Guaranteed Markets Ltd.	Tower Hamlets based Guaranteed Markets Ltd developed NEMs - the technology for online "selling of time" that underpins Slivers-of-Time markets.
	Jobsite	Jobsite is the UK's leading job board for the recruitment industry and acts as interface between this new marketplace and recruitment agencies.
	Torchbox Ltd.	Torchbox is a long established technology design house. They built the full scale Slivers-of-Time application and continue to develop enhancements.
	London Borough of Newham	LB Newham is a leader in exploiting IT for local authorities. The borough was the first to apply Slivers-of-Time to local issues and was key to piloting.
	UnLtd	UnLtd, the UK's leading funder of social entrepreneurs, has financed further development of Slivers-of-Time markets.
	UK Online Centres	UK Online has 7,000 Internet access points available to the public. They can help local people into Slivers-of-Time selling.
	Frederick's Foundation	Frederick's is a charity developing inner city entrepreneurs. It hasbeen key to developing Slivers-of-Time since 2003.

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