The Frontier Technologies Hub works with UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) staff and global partners to understand the potential for innovative tech in the development context, and then test and scale their ideas.
The Frontier Tech Hub enables FCDO to invest in early-stage ideas and radical technology solutions, build capacity to develop, use and govern technology responsibly and support locally led innovation. The programme earned the Civil Service Award for Innovation in 2017, and in 2019 Ministers agreed to scale-up the work.
🚀 We work with FCDO colleagues to fund, test and scale frontier technologies worldwide, by calling for ideas to test frontier technologies in the real world. Since 2016, we’ve worked with 70+ FCDO staff on 58 pilots across 32 countries. Click here to explore our portfolio.
⚡️ We connect FCDO colleagues with one another and the world of tech, helping them to explore the future, being critically curious about what radical technological transformation means for the future, and consequently, FCDO. Click here to join our Network.
💡 We gather and share learnings from across our portfolio of pilot projects, sharing thought leadership from the frontier of tech for impact within the FCDO’s work, and deep diving into the positive potential of tech. Click here to explore our latest evidence outputs.
The Frontier Technologies Hub is managed by a consortium of partners: Results for Development (R4D), DT Global and Brink.