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17 minutes
Released:
Jun 27, 2019
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Governments in Africa and elsewhere are routinely shutting off the iInternet in the name of national security. It is having a significant economic impact. Ed Butler speaks to Dr Dawit Bekele, bureau director for Africa at the Internet Society, and Berhan Taye, an Ethiopian campaigner at Access Now, a global digital rights group. Otto Akama, editor of a technology blog in Cameroon called Afro Hustler, and Darrell West, director of the Center for Technology and Innovation at the Brookings Institution, discuss the effect these shutdowns have on business and the economy.
(Photo: A demonstration by Zimbabwean citizens in Pretoria earlier this year. Credit: Getty Images)
(Photo: A demonstration by Zimbabwean citizens in Pretoria earlier this year. Credit: Getty Images)
Released:
Jun 27, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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