Explore in-depth evidence

We bring together learnings and insights from across our portfolio to share evidence of what works when harnessing frontier technologies to solve problems in the real world.

  • Piloting and scaling e-mobility solutions

    This landscape review lays out recent investments FCDO made in the e-mobility space, our findings across these investments, and recommendations for further research and discussion.

  • IoT Sensors for Impact

    Since the programme’s launch, 10 Frontier Technologies Livestreaming pilots have used Internet enabled sensors as part of proposed technical solutions aimed at delivering social, environmental and humanitarian impact.

  • Blockchain for Social Impact

    Based on the work of previous Blockchain pilots, we’ve identified instances where blockchain worked well, and others where there were challenges, or it wasn’t the right solution for the problem being solved.

  • Making climate finance work for early-stage innovations in low-income country settings

    A landscape review of how climate finance is accessed by early stage pilot innovations, and the role that public sector grant funding can play in unlocking private sector climate finance investment in early-stage innovation.

  • Scaling Distributed Manufacturing

    This report aims to clarify what distributed manufacturing is, and to develop a framework of strategies to approach scaling it in the Global South, learned from four pilots on the Frontier Tech Hub.

  • UAV Portfolio Review

    Through a review of pilot documentation and interviews with pilot implementers and pioneers, the FT Hub has gathered learning from across our UAV pilots and identified a set of good practices for utilisation of UAVs in development sector use cases.

  • Strengthening Health Systems

    This paper seeks to share key principles around how telehealth and data innovations can be used to support more resilient health systems.

  • Routes to Resilience Through Distributed Manufacturing

    This brief shares the key lessons learned from COVIDaction’s work on localisation of production, distributed manufacturing and circular economy approaches for resilience to emergencies.

  • UAVs: What's ethics got to do with it?

    Guidance on how to navigate safety, security and ethical questions related to the sustainable growth and scaling of drone operations in healthcare logistics in Africa.

  • Digital Data for Development

    Data-driven technologies have enormous potential to support the work of UK Aid. We know this because, last year, the FT Hub commissioned a DFID-wide staff survey that highlighted big data analysis and applications as holding the greatest potential of any frontier technology to impact its work.