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Digital Planet: The best tech stories of 2020

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The best tech stories of 2020

29/12/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, The best tech stories of 2020

The best tech of 2020 including Kivuwatt, internet shutdowns and digital death.

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’ve 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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Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

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