In this special edition you’ll find: A look at our 2022 Future of Elections cycle, four trends we’re seeing this year, and four new ideas from FCDO to use tech to protect democracy around the world.

It’s nearly 8AM, and I’m at London Paddington station, walking down the long platform towards the waiting area. It’s a Friday morning, so it's quieter than usual. As I walk, my mind cuts to a different time and place: February 2022 in Samburu County, Kenya, where I remember watching a hefty, squat drone flying overhead.

There’s just one week to go until the application deadline for our 9th call for ideas, and we’re already seeing signs that an incredible new cohort of FCDO Pioneers is soon to arrive.

A blog by the Frontier Tech Hub and Drones Doing Good Alliance on Wakanda Beyond Peer Action Group’s progress to date.

We’re happy to introduce an exciting addition to the Discovery Fund: the Frontier Tech Helpdesk. The Helpdesk is now accessible to all FCDO staff, and offers expert guidance and assistance in exploring questions and ideas related to the innovative realm of frontier technologies and their potential for positive impact.

This short film tells the story of the humans in Singida and Endanachan whose lives have been drastically improved by 24/7 access to safe water.

This short film tells the story of the humans in Rajapur and Katmandu working to engage local communities to prepare against the impacts of climate shocks.

Welcome to the twelfth issue of the Frontier Tech Hub’s regular newsletter, with a wide range of updates from across the Hub.

Eight promising ideas for how frontier technology can help meet global challenges have recently been explored as part of the first cohort of a new support mechanism with the Frontier Technologies Hub, called the Discovery Fund.

From gene-editing to chatbots, discover the pioneering ideas from FCDO staff which will apply frontier technologies to global critical challenges.

Welcome to the tenth issue of the Frontier Tech Hub’s regular newsletter, with a wide range of updates from across the Hub.

At the Frontier Tech Hub, we believe that playfulness, brainstorming, and testing are important ingredients for innovation. With that in mind, the goal of our Ideas Generation Workshop wasn’t for FCDO staff to create refined or excellent ideas that could actually be applications to our programme.

Welcome to the ninth issue of the Frontier Tech Hub’s regular newsletter, with a wide range of updates from across the Hub.

Welcome to the eigth issue of the Frontier Tech Hub’s regular newsletter, with a wide range of updates from across the Hub.

Welcome to the seventh issue of the Frontier Tech Hub’s regular newsletter, with a wide range of updates from across the Hub.

Explore learnings from our pilot, ‘EmpatIA — AI to enhance healthcare in remote areas of Peru'.

Welcome to the 6th issue of the Frontier Tech Hub’s regular newsletter, with a wide range of updates from across the Hub.

Welcome to the fifth issue of the Frontier Tech Hub’s regular newsletter, with a wide range of updates from across the Hub.

In this Pioneer community meet-up, we explore some of the problematic questions commonly encountered on pilot projects, and pooled guidance, experience and advice from the cohort.

Welcome to the fourth issue of the Frontier Tech Hub’s regular newsletter, with a wide range of updates from across the Hub.