Submissions Open: Technical Expert/s - Advising Frontier Tech Hub on Teacher Professional Development in Ethiopia
The FT Hub is looking for (an) education technical consultant(s) with extensive experience in education in humanitarian and development contexts, particularly in the area of teacher professional development, to support the demand-led exploration, root cause analysis, and market and landscape analysis of key education challenges identified in Ethiopia.
Submissions Open: Technical Expert/s - Advising Frontier Tech Hub on the Technical requirements for WASH Tech & Innovation in Ethiopia
The FT Hub is looking for (a) WASH technical consultant(s) with extensive experience in WASH in humanitarian and development contexts to support the demand-led exploration, root cause analysis, and market and landscape analysis of key WASH challenges identified in Ethiopia.
The future of AI x international diplomacy: AI information retrieval
One of 5 key trends related to the likely growing influence of AI over the next 10 years, on our lives and on the work of diplomats around the world as it grows in sophistication and maturity.
What might a Community of Practice in LLMs for knowledge management look like, and why is it needed?
A blog piece by FCDO Pioneer Seb Mhatre outlining the future of LLMs in knowledge management for international development, arguing that the creation of a community of practice is needed.
Submissions Open - Building consumer confidence in water for a future with less plastic
The Frontier Technologies Hub (FT Hub) is looking to conduct Discovery research to better understand what interventions can be put in place to incentivise people in urban India to reduce their use of single use plastic water bottles.
Submissions Open - Climate Finance Tech CoLab
The FT Hub is looking for a partner to help us explore systemic approaches to unlocking the potential of technology to scale and localise climate finance and carbon markets in LMICs.
Invitation to Tender: Research into Using Banana-fibre Papers to Protect White Yams from Nematodes
Click to read our open Invitation to Tender: ‘Research into using banana-fibre papers to protect white yams from nematodes’
Invitation to Tender: Exploring Frontier Technologies Beyond the Hype
The FT Hub is looking for partners to support two new exciting opportunities that will shape our future work. Applicants can apply to one or both opportunities. Read more here.
On the Frontier of Sustainable Agriculture
Each month we take one global critical challenge and explore what’s happening on the frontier of innovation, where FCDO colleagues are working with partners to test solutions in the real world. This month? We're on the Frontier of Sustainable Agriculture.
Submissions Open - Mis/dis-information CoLab
We’re looking for a partner to help us explore technology’s role in combating mis- and dis-information in Lower-and-Middle Income Countries. Click here to found out more.
Bioplastics in Nepal - Pioneering a plastics-free future
Learn more about Zero Circular’s overarching goal: to introduce biodegradable plastics into the plastic ecosystem in Nepal
Nepal Bioplastics - Transition to bioplastics through retrofitting
Read about Zero Circular’s retrofitting of existing plastics machines to manufacture bioplastics in Nepal
Smart GeoSeals pilot report - using technology to improve humanitarian supply chains
Read the report for our pilot 'Smart GeoSeals to track delivery of humanitarian aid' here
Submissions Open - Stakeholder research exploring the potential of an AI tool for the legal sector in Malawi
The FT Hub is looking for an Independent Technical Expert/s to conduct initial research as part of a project to incorporate generative AI in Malawi’s legal sector. Click to find out more.
EmpatIA pilot report - our findings in enhancing healthcare for remote areas in Peru
Read the report for our pilot 'EmpatIA - enhancing healthcare access to remote areas in Peru' here
CLOSED: Invitation to tender: Design of Fund for Frontier Tech Innovations in Agriculture
Click to read our tender: 'Invitation to tender: Design of Fund for Frontier Tech Innovations in Agriculture'
Navigating Carbon Credit Hurdles to Mobilise Climate Finance in the Sahel
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.
The ‘third wheel’: bringing sustainable e-mobility to wheelchair users in Nairobi
Read more about our progress to date on providing assistive tech and digital mapping to help wheelchair users in Kenya.
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. Listen to the first 20 minute episode here.
On the Frontier of Humanitarian Supply Chains - Frontier Tech Hub Newsletter September 2024
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