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Digital Planet: Covid-19 makes tech events go virtual

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10/03/2020 GMT

Covid-19 makes tech events go virtual

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Covid-19 makes tech events go virtual

An increasing number of tech events are going virtual to reduce transmission of COVID-19

Covid-19 makes tech events go virtual. Also regulating the internet, AI and fashion and an app to fight banana disease.

Major events around the world are being cancelled as the COVID-19 virus spreads across the globe. Despite significant falls in new cases in China and South Korea many tech conferences and meetings are being moved to virtual space instead. We hear from the International Communication Association who have cancelled their annual conference in the physical world and are now moving it online.

Regulating the internet
As Covid-19 spreads so does misinformation about the virus online. Dr.Jennifer Cobbe from Cambridge University joins us in studio to discuss how to combat this.

Fashion and AI
Clothes online and on the high street are increasingly being ‘designed’ by AI, according to Alentina Vardanyan from the Judge Business School in Cambridge.  She is speaking at the Cambridge Science Festival about how machines could be taking the creativity out of the latest fashion trends. 

Banana disease app
A new app is helping banana plantation owners and workers treat and manage diseases.   Now farmers in Africa and South America are using an app to diagnose disease, scientists are using this data to monitor and map the spread of the infection.

Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

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