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Winner - The Enterprise Award

Rowan Wingham - Slivers-of-Time

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Wingham Rowan is the former producer and presenter of the UK's longest running television series about the Internet: "cyber.cafe" which ran on ITV from 1995 to 2000. The former presenter of children's TV programme "Rowan's Report", he is the author of two books about the social potential of online markets.

Wingham is now the Project Director of "Slivers-of-Time Working", a government funded initiative that uses advanced (but easy to use) trading technology to help individuals who need to work, on their own terms, at times of their choosing. Employers expanding their workforce in this new way include: Local Authorities, Housing Associations, NHS Primary Care Trusts, national retailers and major caterers.

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