Mark Lyndersay

Mark Lyndersay is a writer and photographer based in Trinidad and Tobago. He wrote 1,800 editorial leaders for Guardian Media Limited between 2001 and 2016 and now provides leaders for the T&T Newsday. He writes features and reviews for several publications. His column, BitDepth has examined personal technology issues continuously over the last 27 years. As a photographer, he divides his time between commercial assignments, editorial photography, annual reports and personal projects like Local Lives, which examines the backstory of life and culture in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Planning events, post-pandemic

"It's definitely more difficult to execute a hybrid event. It's planning two event experiences in one, and those two experiences need to be in sync."
BitDepth

The cookies crumble

Third party data gathering is a mass harvesting and aggregation process and in gathering this information, careless coding can create security problems.
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Reuters Institute report charts tough road for journalism

Younger audiences, particularly in the 18-24 age group, are finding their news on visual platforms, inclusive of Tik Tok. As many as 15 per cent use it as a primary source for news.
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At the Hot (front) Gates

For fifteen months, parents and caregivers participated in the classroom,in an engagement filtered through the keyhole of remote connections, the class assembled in tiny neat rectangles.
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TATT’s Digital Inclusion survey raises questions

The current Universal Service Fund (USF) stands at $148,344,602 according to TATT's 2021 annual report.
BitDepth

Lively, revealing discussion at JSC on fintech

Courtpay was frozen in 2020 when the Treasury created a new rule that a bank must provide this service and it cannot be run via a Judiciary bank account.
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Jamaica introduces JAM-DEX Central Bank Digital Currency

The BOJ chose eCurrency Mint from 43 vendors and began an eight month pilot of the currency that ended on December 31, 2021.
Technology Reporting

WiPay delivers on promise, offers proposal to Social Development Ministry

WiPay has proposed a proof of concept initiative, the Digital Disbursements Pilot Project, to last three months, which the company estimates is worth $1.2 million.
BitDepth

Robots II: Automating print layout for web first publishing

Web stories published are dragged into preset layouts for the print edition with formatting handled by AIDA.
BitDepth

The robots in journalism’s future

The focus should be on supplementing the work that humans do through automation rather than thinking of the tools as a replacement, it's not an automation or human choice.
BitDepth

What’s happening with regional data protection legislation?

Recent data protection laws in the Caribbean have been heavily modeled on the European Union's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
Technology Reporting

Putting a failed imaging workstation back together

There’s nothing quite like the frustration of running a cable, carefully bundling it every six inches or so with a velcro strip, and then realising it’s two inches too short.
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