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The best tech stories of 2020
Review of the year; Kivuwatt, internet shutdowns, digital death and contact tracing apps for COVID19.
This week Digital Planet looks back on some of the stories we鈥檝e covered in 2020; electricity from Lake Kivu on the Rwandan/DRC border, internet shutdowns across the world, contact tracing apps during the pandemic and how technology has changed digital death rituals and allowed us to grieve.
The programme is presenter by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Ghislaine Boddington, Angelica Mari and Bill Thompson.
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Studio Manager: Bob Nettles
Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz
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- Tue 29 Dec 2020 20:32GMT大象传媒 World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview, News Internet & Europe and the Middle East only
- Tue 29 Dec 2020 21:32GMT大象传媒 World Service Australasia, South Asia & East Asia only
- Wed 30 Dec 2020 04:32GMT大象传媒 World Service except Australasia, East Asia & South Asia
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