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.

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...

Samsung gears up again

BitDepth#932 for April 15 So I’ve been wearing a watch. It’s been 40 years since I last closed the strap for a timepiece around my wrist,...

National Conversation website launched

The website for the National Conversation project has been launched. Some information about who is gathering this information and for what purpose would be useful...

Surveying the T&T digital Divide

Global Voices publishes the second part of their interview with mSurvey, who recently completed a comprehensive examination of the distribution of digital information in...

What’s Samsung really up to?

BitDepth#931 for April 08 Last week, perhaps not coincidentally on April 01, Samsung brought its World Tour previewing the newest version of its flagship...

A media unready

What happens when reporting the news becomes telling people what they already know? The answers to these inevitable changes in the way we consume news will be daunting for media information gatekeepers.

TT connecting, connecting…

Technical glitches can affect anyone, but for a Ministry desperately playing catchup with technology, the situation offered far too many juicy metaphors.
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