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.

Digital transformation using open source software

"I would highly recommend setting up a high level combined Digital Transformation and Open Source steering group to look at strategic issues." - Saranjit Arora

Why stealing IP is bad for culture

It actually doesn't take much effort to find out where a digital file originates, but a surprising number of people looking for IP don't bother to make the effort.

Kaiso, kaiso, flows into the data stream

Calypsonians, Phillip believes, also have to become more proactive in pushing their careers online. Too few are active online or on social media developing and promoting their work.

Phishing gets subtle, more worrisome

"We've got all the weaknesses we've always had, but we've got all these new areas which are providing scammers and fraudsters with a whole new range of options to attack us with enticements."

That difficult vaccination conversation

Recent urgings and threats to the public to be vaccinated have only led to an uptick in booster shots being administered, with first vaccinations remaining flatlined.

Taking the right tablet

Google's Android OS is more open to the user and functions more like a traditional desktop operating system than iOS, which is often insistently opaque in how it handles files internally.

Alwin Chow’s brief media blitz

The Guardian would probably have kept right on using those aging Microtek word processors for the rest of the decade, despite their constant glitching.

Digital Canopi builds a digital platform for regional authors

For Digital Canopi, Royards and Blue Guruz used an encrypted version of PDF that's only readable in the Digital Canopi app. That addresses the most common blight that assails digital books, widespread piracy.

TT’s legal hurdles to becoming a digital economy

E-signatures and other methods of digital verification are foundation blocks to building a viable digital economy of electronic transactions and digital goods and assets.

The desk job

A laptop forces you to look down at an incrementally small angle, putting a small but insistent pressure on your neck muscles and encouraging your body to become unnaturally hunched.

Choosing the best smartphone

Being clear about everything a user plans to do with the device is important in choosing a smartphone, particularly as a gift.

Rusbridger’s Guardian

What required hand-coding and heavy investments in servers then can now be accomplished for less than a thousand dollars today.
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