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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. We conducted a review to understand what has been proven by Frontier Technologies pilots, on the potential for these solutions to work within different contexts, and unlock impact.

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Blockchain for Social Impact

The Frontier Technologies Hub is currently in the process of conducting a review, along with Impact Plus, to reflect on what we’ve learned about blockchain, it’s application in the international development and humanitarian contexts, and what this means for the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, and other actors, when it comes to implementing blockchain for impact.

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Routes to Resilience through Distributed Manufacturing and Circular Economy Approaches

This brief shares the key lessons learned from COVIDaction Local Production Local Solutions (LPLS).  Through its work, LPLS identified that localisation of production, distributed manufacturing and circular economy approaches can help increase resilience to emergencies and improve the responsiveness of production systems to community needs. These approaches can also help to reduce waste, limit carbon emissions, and mitigate the impacts of production systems on the environment.

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Strengthening Health System Resilience through Telehealth and Data Innovations: What We’ve Learned from COVIDaction Resilient Health Systems

This paper seeks to share key principles around how telehealth and data innovations can be used to support more resilient health systems. Findings are based on the learnings of the COVIDaction Resilient Health Systems (RHS) program, which tested a new way of rapidly supporting innovators to strengthen health systems, in response to the pandemic.

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UAV Portfolio Review

A review of pilot documentation and interviews with pilot implementers from across 7 UAV pilots, with some key lessons learned and recommendations.

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Frontier Tech Talks

Stories about how to overcome the biggest challenges in tech for global development, straight from those who’ve been there and done it.

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