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.

Read final learnings from our pilot EmpatIA: Enabling Healthcare Transformation in Peru

As the Earth’s temperature rises, desertification – the permanent degradation of once-arable land – continues to be a significant, and growing, global risk. But what if we could harness the potential of nature restoration in these drylands to sequester carbon and improve the lives of millions in the Sahel. Introducing the Drylands pilot.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, millions of children around the world missed routine vaccines. I am embarking on a Frontier Technology pilot that will explore the question: Can a chatbot improve the effectiveness and efficiency of vaccine uptake?

Explore learnings from our fourth sprint of the Pnyx pilot in Malaysia, around building a mobile prototype for the MyDemokrasi platform.

This post describes the launch of FOLIA's mobile and web app, and an exclusive invitation to present to key stakeholders at the prestigious ChocoShow 2023.

Learnings from our third sprint as part of the Project Sapling pilot in Sierra Leone

Explore learnings of the final Sprint of our pilot on using sensors to enhance beekeeping productivity in South Africa

A blog by James Bell, a Frontier Tech Hub Implementing Partner with CEFAS.

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

This post outlines learnings from the third sprint of our pilot, Pynx.

This post describes the technical challenges associated with gathering accurate data about farm locations and boundaries and building FOLIA’s digital infrastructure.

This post is the second of two blogs which capture learnings from our pilot — ‘IoT-enabled household battery distribution via micro-retailer networks’

This post is the first of two blogs which capture learnings from our pilot — ‘IoT-enabled household battery distribution via micro-retailer networks’.

Fresh from the Geoseal pilot’s scoping trip to Ethiopia; we now have a clear understanding of what GeoSeals needs to achieve in our upcoming field trial.

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

Explore learnings from our pilot — eTriage for social inclusion: navigating out of vulnerability situations.

We’re preparing to trial GeoSeals, our solution to real-time reporting of humanitarian aid stock levels for aid agencies, helping them to manage supply chains cost-effectively.

This post outlines learnings from the second sprint of our pilot, Pynx.