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What happens when the internet vanishes?By Joe Tidy & Becky DaleBBC News 25 February 2020 Image copyrightReutersFrom his high-rise desk overlooking the sprawling city of Addis Ababa, Markos Lemma has a pretty good view of things.As the founder of technology innovation hub IceAddis, his co-working space is usually abuzz with wide-eyed entrepreneurs fuelled on strong coffee and big dreams.But when the internet shuts down, everything is killed in its tracks.Data shared with the BBC by digital rights group Access Now, shows that last year services were deliberately shut down more than 200 times in 33 separate countries."Traffic around here just stops. No one comes in - or when they do they don't stay for long because without the internet, what are they going to do?" Markos says. "We had a software development contract that was cancelled because we couldn't deliver on time, because... there was internet disconnection. We've also [had] situations where internatio…