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World Service,25 Oct 2014,25 mins

The Power of Technology

From Our Own Correspondent

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This edition looks at how technology can help countries advance - or fall back into chaos. Tristan McConnell travels to the devastated towns and settlements of South Sudan; Will Grant tries to get online - expensively - in Cuba; Charlotte McDonald hears how Burmese families are reacting to new home comforts in Yangon; Katy Watson takes a look at the flamboyant new constructions changing the skyline of La Paz and El Alto in Bolivia, and Chris Haslam has a tale of a baboon marooned (and possibly doomed) in Zimbabwe. (Photo: Opening of the spill gates of the Kariba Dam, Zambia, February 2008. Credit: Collins Phiri/AFP/Getty Images)

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