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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BitDepth

The NCC is a failure and embarrassment

The NCC has built the structures, dispensed the funds, kowtowed to the politicians, handed out thousands of largely meaningless trophies and thrown a cloak of culture over a shambles of mismanagement.
News Briefs

What’s up with WhatsApp

Facebook's business model is based on user surveillance. Patterns of user behaviour, viewing and content posting are tracked aggressively.
BitDepth

WFH – A short history

Having a fax available alongside a fully digital communication tool made it possible to appreciate the difference between transmitting live data and a picture of it.
Opinion

2020: The annual report to readers

Letters to the Prime Minister and Education Minister and a report on the ANSA McAl ransomware hack were the four leading stories for 2020.
BitDepth

The gritty reality of online school

Forced to radically rethink the course material and requirements through a dramatically different lens, actually improved several aspects of the teaching process.
BitDepth

The big leap to Big Sur

Two full, bootable backups before a major OS update should be mandatory for a computer in daily, critical use.
BitDepth

Why is TATT buying tablets for students?

TATT is governed by procurement rules, which require a competitive bidding and tendering process that is supposed to be documented and accessible to the public.
Backgrounder

TATT responds to questions about $15m tablet purchase

Questions posed to the Telecommunications Authority about a $15 million purchase announcement and the regulations in the Telecommunications Act that govern the spending related to the Universal Service Fund.
Technology Reporting

What caused the Internet failure of December seventh?

In Curacao, a nationwide power outage shut the country down on the morning of December 07, while the EC Link cable route was still under repair.
BitDepth

How Teams flourished

Microsoft shuttered Classroom in favour of Teams in 2017, and now reports 183,000 Microsoft Teams for Education deployments in 175 countries.
News Briefs

Flow breaks the TT Internet

What Flow described as "degraded services such as slower internet speeds and intermittent buffering when using broadband services" was an unusable Internet experience for most users.
BitDepth

The burning dock

Media houses aren’t in competition with each other, they are in competition with disinterest, sketchy reading habits and a world of distracting, often contradictory quasi-information.
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