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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’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.

(Image credit: Getty Images)

Studio Manager: Bob Nettles
Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

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43 minutes

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Sat 2 Jan 202117:32GMT
BBC World Service News Internet

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  • Tue 29 Dec 202020:32GMT
    BBC World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview, News Internet & Europe and the Middle East only
  • Tue 29 Dec 202021:32GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia, South Asia & East Asia only
  • Wed 30 Dec 202004:32GMT
    BBC World Service except Australasia, East Asia & South Asia
  • Wed 30 Dec 202005:32GMT
    BBC World Service Australasia & South Asia only
  • Wed 30 Dec 202006:32GMT
    BBC World Service East Asia
  • Wed 30 Dec 202011:32GMT
    BBC World Service
  • Wed 30 Dec 202018:32GMT
    BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
  • Sat 2 Jan 202108:32GMT
    BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only
  • Sat 2 Jan 202117:32GMT
    BBC World Service News Internet

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