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’

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.

Supply chains in the Pacific Islands have always been long and expensive, and COVID-19 exposed the region’s vulnerability to disruption and exacerbated existing supply-chain constraints. But what can distributed manufacturing offer this community?