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.

Work from Home essentials

From the day they were introduced, inkjet printers were a scam. The printer was priced cheaply to lock the user into buying expensive cartridges for the life of the device.

Pushing culture upstream

"It's important to keep the audience in the space. You can't build a show to a climax, You have to come hard early and keep me entertained." - Kenny Phillips.

What is Carnival?

The persistence of traditional practitioners, the mobility of their creations and the navel-string narratives they have preserved became the creative foundation of a reimagined Carnival.

Digicel’s identity crisis

DigicelTT eats the chow it serves, and maintains a private BiP channel for updates and team chats, information sharing and disappearing messages that’s used by its management and employees.

Microsoft’s Viva brings HR to the remote workday

“Viva is powered by the full breath and depth of Microsoft 365, and it’s experienced primarily through Microsoft Teams." - Jared Spataro

The Facebook-Apple face-off

Apple’s privacy drive reaches deep into the systems that control programmatic advertising.

Caesar’s Army hosts a digital bashment

I didn’t like the spectacle frames on my avatar, which came from a rather limited selection, but my body shape, red polo, jeans and clean-shaven head offered up a decent facsimile of my meatworld self.

Building a soca party in pixels

In the ideation phase we might come up with thousands of great ideas we would like to implement all at once to give our users the most immersive and engaging experience.

Carnival is not a product

Above: Petrotrin flared gas as part of its refinery process for decades. The flame finally went out when the refinery shut down. Photo by...

Huawei panel considers GDPR’s impact in 2020

The legal challenge by privacy activist Maximillian Schrems forced the court to reconsider the EU-US Privacy Shield law and how it works in practice.

Samsung targets disabilities with new assistive tech

Samsung has been working on accessibility features with the Royal National Institute of Blind People for years and has collaboratively developed these assistive features.

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.
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The years ahead will shift toward investing for transformation and sustainable value creation.

Samsung’s big bet on AI

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