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.

Copyright stokes an online blaze

Photographers covering Carnival-related events are perceived to be getting a free ride while profiting significantly from covering shows and parties.

A digital mandate for the new government

The emphasis on AI feels like a more decorative than performative mandate, given the need for core infrastructure and interoperability to create a functional backbone for digital governance.

Visa looks to AI enhanced shopping

AI-Ready Cards will replacecard details with tokenized digital credentials, enhancing security for consumers and simplifying payment processes for developers.

Considering digital colorism and virtual identity

Until the 1970's, colour film for photography was notorious for its inability to properly render the subtlety of non-white skin.

A letter to the Prime Minister: About digital

The plan to pursue "electronic data access in all police vehicles," only works if there is an efficient capture process for relevant information, a secure system for storing data and a robust data encryption regime for transmitting it.

Girls in ICT 2025

"Imagine what your life would be would be without ICT, no internet, no devices, no digital learning, no apps, no access to knowledge opportunity or to each other?"

The TT election on the open internet

A website on the open internet is an opportunity for a political party to hang its shingle in a space of its own making, defining its character, positions and plans.

The password problem

Just two per cent of Instagram account holders visit the site on the desktop. It is overwhelmingly a mobile app platform.

Georgia’s 16 years managing Global Voices

"We used to go to conferences and journalists would accuse us of stealing jobs, a lack of credibility."

The virtual newsroom

Georgia Popplewell has a job with no offices, a board that's never in the same room and the attention of the world riveted on Global Voices.

Inaugural meeting of Women of the Caribbean in AI

The Caribbean WIAIG chapter plans to host a dedicated AI governance at SXSW in 2026, following up a successful staging in 2025.

How TT is faring by regional internet standards?

Regionally, connecting a small population in a geographically homogeneous island should be relatively simple, but few islands fit that profile.
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