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.

Battle of the phablets

BitDepth#955 for September 23 For the last six years or so, I’ve been an Android guy as far as smartphones go. I’ve used Samsung’s devices specifically,...

Innovation: Suborning Imagination

BitDepth#913, published on November 26, 2013 Last week, the Ministry of Planning hosted interested citizens to a panel discussion titled “The Human Imagination at Work.”...

Young Innovators challenge

The Young Innovators Competition is looking for talented young social entrepreneurs using technology creatively to meet a range of  real-life developmental challenges. If you are...

Newsday reports on Sealots public Internet project

Newsday has a story about a YTEPP project inspired by education researcher Prof Sugata Mitra of India here. YTEPP's public statement about the project is...

NCC posts papers from copyright symposium

A collection of papers presented at the Copyright in Carnival Symposium has been released by the NCC here.

Tamana Intech Park Developments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCN_7Xxjuz0 This video marks the formal opening of the Tamana InTech Park project, while the video at the link below promotes the capabilities of Tamana...

Social intervention, new media style

BitDepth#954 for September 16 In an era in which everyone not only has an opinion, but multiple avenues for expressing those thoughts, it’s surprising that...

Walcott and Hill, back in the day

A look back at better times, when Ronald Walcott (newly appointed TSTT CEO) and George Hill (recently resigned TSTT CEO) were charged with spearheading...

Another laptop story

BitDepth#953 for September 09 Last week, the Ministry of Education scampered to respond to a claim by parent Julien Dedier that his daughter’s Government-issued laptop...

Why Apple registers TM in T&T first

The Wall Street Journal's law blog has a story about why Trinidad and Tobago has been Apple's preferred point of first registration for its...

Links to current global deliberations on Net Neutrality

Updated Net Neutrality Report from the Dynamic Coalition on Network Neutrality. The Dynamic Coalition is here. The 2014 Internet Governance Forum workshop is available on YouTube. Other IGF...

UHDTV and you

BitDepth#952 for September 02 On August 28, Samsung introduced its newest line of curved televisions to Trinidad and Tobago, the U9000 UHD series, available in...
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