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.

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.

You should probably have an EPK

Social Media: Users shoehorn their content into the templates provided and everybody, from company presidents to interns, looks exactly the same.

Hands-on with the Samsung S25 Ultra

Samsung has quietly ushered its largely unloved digital assistant Bixby off the premium space offered with a right swipe on the home screen

The last Carnival column

Managing Carnival using the same structure that was first devised 68 years ago under the CDC seems particularly misguided.

Will UPI change how we shop?

Underlying any significant change to digital payments will be the implementation of a national e-ID system.

Is e-money a solution in search of a problem?

According to the CBTT in its responses to questions, will cost its users "either very little or zero to use.”

The inevitable upgrade

Even forked open source software committed to maintaining usability on older systems was beginning to show insurmountable cracks.
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The Global Lense – The one about data and tech stack sovereignty

Most recent technology development appears to be companies outside the region tapping the market within the region.

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