Read the report for our pilot 'EmpatIA - enhancing healthcare access to remote areas in Peru' here

Click to read our tender: 'Invitation to tender: Design of Fund for Frontier Tech Innovations in Agriculture'

Read on to find out how the team on one of our current pilots, ‘Turning Drylands into Global Carbon Sinks’ are trying to mobilise carbon finance through the Voluntary Carbon Market, and the challenges that lay ahead.

Read more about our progress to date on providing assistive tech and digital mapping to help wheelchair users in Kenya.

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. Listen to the first 20 minute episode here.

Welcome to the September edition of On the Frontier, the Frontier Tech Hub’s regular monthly newsletter. In this edition we’re exploring innovation On the Frontier of humanitarian supply chains

The global demand for humanitarian aid is surging, with 308m+ people expected to need assistance by 2024. Traditional supply chains are struggling to keep up, and the pressure mounting to deliver aid faster, smarter, and more efficiently has never been greater.

This blog post by FCDO Pioneer Robert Phillips explores some of the results of user engagement surrounding the pilot 'Using LLMs as a tool for International Development professionals'.

Read the final installation of a three-part series about the journey and learnings from our pilot AI as a tool for International Development professionals. This article discusses the UI development for the tool and directions for further improvement and scaling.

Read the second installation of a three-part series about the journey and learnings from our pilot AI as a tool for International Development professionals. This part explores the building of effective retrieval systems and prompt engineering.

After a competitive ‘dragon's den’ process, we are pleased to announce the 16 successful applications and the diverse ideas they will make a reality, alongside local implementing partners and the Frontier Tech Hub team, over the coming 12-18 months.

Read the first installation of a three-part series about the journey and learnings from our pilot AI as a tool for International Development professionals. This blog focuses on the preparation of the data and the approach taken by the team.

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.

Read the study findings from our pilot EmpatIA: AI to enhance healthcare in remote areas of Peru.

Read about the impact of the AI conversation agent on the Project EmpatIA pilot and the learnings from incorporating generative AI into healthcare.

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.

In our Launchpad series, Ready to Scale, we explored different kinds of business models which can be used to make a pilot project sustainable.

Learn more about the idea behind our pilot ‘Using LLMs as a tool for international development professionals’ in this piece by Seb Mhatre, FCDO pioneer.

Design engineer Ruby Hill hand-made 13 hubs to be installed 3000km away in Ethiopia, to prevent stock-outs of life-saving malnutrition supplements, needed by millions of babies across the world annually.

Read about the fifth sprint of our pilot ‘Pnyx: the digital public assembly; redefining representation’