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 Finn’s finale

BitDepth#937 for May 20 I’m quite fond of that very old Trini saying, “time is longer than twine.” You’ve got to be of a certain vintage...

Data wrangling for dummies

BitDepth#936 for May 13 By the time you read this I’ll be hip deep in hard drives, wading my way through terabytes of data again,...

Yooz seeks more for its users

Originally published in the Business Guardian on February 13, 2014. Eddy Devisse is enthusiastic. But he’s also wary. We’re in a spacious and mostly empty room...

The 2014 IADB report on broadband development

From the abstract of the paper... "This discussion paper describes the methodology used to compute the Broadband Development Index (IDBA, Indice de Desarrollo de la...

Caribbean Internet cost – 2014

ICT Pulse reports on the affordability of Internet service in the Caribbean.    

Young USC developers win app challenge

BitDepth#935 for May 06 The four young men huddle in the small room nervously. It’s startling how young they all seem in the tiny meeting...

The Young Innovators Programme 2014

From the website for the project: "The Young Innovators Programme works with innovative young people from all over the world who are using technology...

Rambachan calls for local technlogy “codes of practice”

The Trinidad Express reports that Minister of Works, Dr Suruj Rambachan has suggested that Trinidad and Tobago needs "the establishment of codes of practice...

Licks, spreading like fire

BitDepth#934 for April 29 By now, there’s unlikely to be a single person in T&T who’s on Facebook who hasn’t had that video of a...

Global Information Technology Report 2014 published

Keen to assess the rankings of Trinidad and Tobago on the world stage? The 13th edition of the Global Information Technology Report by the World...

Lubricating Samsung’s Gear

BitDepth#933 for April 22 In creating a smaller Gear device, Samsung has chosen to sacrifice the potential of the new Gear line, which run Tizen,...

Cybercrime bill before Parliament

From the abstract of the document... THE CYBERCRIME BILL, 2014 The purpose of the Cybercrime Bill, 2013 is to provide for the creation of offences related...
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