Introducing a new podcast: Stories from the Frontier
We want to bring you the best stories from the frontlines of innovation around the world. So we’re excited to introduce Stories from the Frontier: a series of audio stories based on written stories and interviews from across the Hub.
Stories from the Frontier will be:
Short enough to squeeze into your break. Each episode will only ever be 15-20 minutes long.
An intimate perspective. Each episode takes a technical idea and digs into the human stories within.
An opportunity to learn quickly. We’ll offer digestible, bite-sized chunks on tech and innovation.
Listen to the first episode today
In our first episode hear from design engineer Ruby Hill about the unexpected challenges faced when developing hardware to be installed in a remote corner of Ethiopia.
To save lives, humanitarian aid must be in the right place at the right time. Understanding where nutrition supplements, vaccines and medicines are located and used is vital to meeting emergency needs.
In hard to reach conflict zones, areas without electric and internet connectivity and where staff are overstretched, reliable real time data does not exist. This results in stock running out, medicines expiring and inefficiencies in delivery. Ultimately this puts the lives of the most vulnerable on the line.
Ruby’s hardware will utilise Internet of Things technology to track boxes of humanitarian goods. These seals will be automatically detected at registered clinics and transmit a signal to a central database for people to cross reference with intended locations.
🎧 You can listen to this story on Spotify or Apple podcasts.
📖 This is based on a previously written story, which you can read alongside the audio story.
📆 We’re diving deeper into this story at our upcoming event: On the Frontier of Humanitarian Supply Chains, on Wednesday October 2nd. Please do join us.
