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Can smart GeoSeals track supply chains of life-saving malnutrition aid in Ethiopia and eliminate stockouts in rural health centers? This is a 2 minute trailer for the upcoming short film which will be screened live during an online event on Wednesday October 2nd at 2pm UK time. Reserve your free ticket here: www.frontiertechhub.org/otf-humanitarian-supply-chains The film depicts the team deploy...

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Across Nepal, data on the nature and condition of WASH assets is collected and uploaded onto the government’s NWASH portal. It is often inaccurate, hindering the government's ability to make good decisions on resource allocation and compromising people’s access to water. In this video, learn how the FT Hub has been testing the use of an AI image recognition algorithm to analyse the nearly 1-mil...

This pilot set out to understand whether detailed verification of reforestation activity could reduce funder hesitancy and encourage investment in reforestation initiatives. To test this, the team sought to develop a stack of technology that would combine ground truthing (through the act of attaching and registering a geotag to each individual sapling through the use of a mobile app) and remote...

Bees play a crucial role in global food production, but the beekeeping industry in South Africa faces significant challenges like declining beekeeper numbers and suboptimal pollination. This Frontier Tech Hub pilot aims to answer the question: Can IoT sensor technologies improve beekeeping productivity? To learn more, visit the pilot page: www.frontiertechhub.org/pilot-portfolio/sensortechnolog...

Dive into this interview to explore the intersection of blockchain technology and the international development and humanitarian sectors.

ELEK TEY is a pilot project electrifying water transport for better livelihoods in Senegal: www.frontiertechhub.org/pilot-portfolio/elek-tey In Casamance, Senegal, there are rural communities living on inland islands who are dependent on boats for fishing and transport. Unfortunately, the cost of fuel is extremely high, with fuel costs representing 25% of fisherman’s daily income. Petrol is uns...

We live in a world where more people in Africa have access to mobile phones than have access to clean drinking water. Water infrastructure across Africa can be fragmented and unreliable. 10 years ago it was estimated that one in three hand pumps in rural areas were broken globally, and one reason for this is a lack of maintenance and repair. In 2016 the Frontier Tech Hub worked with eWATER Serv...

Every year in Nepal, the Rajapur Municipality is impacted by floods. There is data available to help plan against these shocks, but it is not currently utilised on a local level. This short film tells the story of the humans in Rajapur and Katmandu working to engage local communities to prepare against the impacts of climate shocks, using data pulled from geospatial data from satellites and dat...

Embracing data, locally | A Frontier Tech Hub film (short version)

We live in a world where more people in Africa have access to mobile phones than have access to clean drinking water. Water infrastructure across Africa can be fragmented and unreliable. 10 years ago it was estimated that one in three hand pumps in rural areas were broken globally, and one reason for this is a lack of maintenance and repair. In 2016 the Frontier Tech Hub worked with eWATER Serv...

An interview with Tim Hemmings, the Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Colombia. At the Frontier Tech Hub, we believe that playfulness, brainstorming, and testing are important ingredients for innovation. With that in mind, the goal of our Ideas Generation Workshop wasn’t for FCDO staff to create refined or excellent ideas that could actually be applications to our programme. It w...

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