Members

The seamlessUK consortium brought together by the New Opportunities Fund comprises:

Managing partner - Essex County Council, Strategic Information Management Team

The Community Information Programme Team, part of the Strategic Information team for Essex County Council believe strongly that the needs of actual and potential customers and clients should be paramount when designing information services. This is an issue they have pioneered in community information in the original Seamless project which concentrated on information local to Essex. The first step towards an online community network in the county, Seamless formed the basis of the current NOF funded SeamlessUK project. Essex has achieved a national profile for leading the development of citizen-centric information provision.

Lead technical partners – Fretwell-Downing Informatics Ltd

FDI has pioneered the development of methods and technologies that integrate access to local authority, public library and local and national community information, enabling local authorities to work smarter and improve their public information services.

The company is experienced in delivering measurable benefits through its information consultancy services and e-government standards-based software solutions and has been proud to be the lead technical partner in seamlessUK.

Project Management, monitoring and evaluation – MDR Partners

MDR have a strong record in the management of library and information management projects nationally and internationally, particularly involving partners from more than one region or authority.

Local authority partners:

• Bexley
• Brighton and Hove
• Bromley
• East Sussex
• Kent
• Lewisham
• Medway
• North Lincolnshire Libraries
  

National Information partners:

• Age Concern
• BBC
• Common Purpose
• Community Legal Service
• East of England development Agency (EEDA)
• Employment Agency
• HMSO
• Learndirect
• National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux (NACAB)
• NCVO
• NHS Direct Online
• NHS UK
• Royal Association for the Deaf - RAD
• UKOnline