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

With the help of the Frontier Tech Hub, we’ve just built and trialled a low-cost, low-tech deep sea exploration system and tested it in Scotland before it is used in St Helena and Belize.

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

This post introduces learnings from the first sprint of our pilot, Pnyx.

When I ask her what the inspiration was behind her Frontier Technology pilot, Poorani Krishnan is unequivocal. “I think the one big challenge that separates where we are and where we can be is leadership,” she says.

The original spark for what eventually became Project Sapling came to Christina Toepell when she was on holiday in the north east of Sierra Leone.

In the early morning of December, amidst the sunlit mid-hills of the Eastern Himalayas, chilling northerly wind gust through the Karnali River. Parbati Gurung unlocks the door to a flood monitoring station.

Explore learnings from Project Sapling’s recent planting event.

Read more about Project Sapling’s field trial.

This post captures learning from the fourth sprint of our pilot, “De-duplicating aid to enhance the impact of humanitarian assistance”.

This post captures learning from the first sprint of our pilot — ‘Integrating satellite and ground data to improve transparency to cocoa value chain’.

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

This post captures learning from the first Sprint of our pilot — ‘Harnessing sensor technologies to improve beekeeping productivity in South Africa’.

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.

By her own admission, Liz Bautista is a bit of a geek. Early in her career, she had taken supplemental courses on robotics, coding and data analytics simply because she was interested in how those technologies might supplement her interests in governance, public policy and development.

In April of 2015 Nepal was affected by a large earthquake that killed almost 9,000 people and injured around 22,000 more.

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

Explore learnings from the second sprint of our pilot, Project Sapling

This post captures learning from the third sprint of our pilot, “De-duplicating aid to enhance the impact of humanitarian assistance”.