By Caribbean Beat ● News & Online Exclusives
Get smart, get safe online
Every citizen can choose to be smart when it comes to online predators and criminals, and “smart actions” should be taught, developed, and utilised daily
Engage, Technology, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Mark Lyndersay ● Issue 140 (July/August 2016)
Trinidadian Laurie Voss: unbreaking the internet
In March 2016, the Internet shook, when a small, fairly straightforward, but widely used snippet of JavaScript code disappeared from the...
Engage, Culture, Technology, Travel
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 138 (March/April 2016)
Have internet, will travel
It’s difficult — and probably futile — to determine which, among all human activities, has been most altered by the Internet, but...
Engage, Culture, Technology, Lifestyle, People
By Philip Sander ● Issue 131 (January/February 2015)
Are you listening? A decade of Global Voices
In late January this year, a group of several hundred self-described netizens — loyal “citizens” of the Internet — will assemble in...
Immerse, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Tracy Assing ● Issue 129 (September/October 2014)
Maxine Williams: “Big ideas can change the world”
I started using Facebook in 2007. I joined as an employee in 2013 — I am the global head of diversity for Facebook. That means that I...
By Georgia Popplewell ● Issue 43 (May/June 2000)
Netwatch: Caribbean Callaloo
I had meant to find a special theme for this month’s Internet column, but because I’m writing this in the US and missing my...
Culture, Technology, People, Trinidad and Tobago
By Gerard Best ● Issue 107 (January/February 2011)
Bevil Wooding: casting the internet wider
It’s like something out of Tolkien. In some unknown future, the Internet blacks out and civilisation totters on the edge of chaos. The...
By Kim Youngblood ● Issue 79 (May/June 2006)
The Caribbean blogosphere
Caribbean Beat first addressed the “blogging” phenomenon back in 2003, and posted a short update the following year. Since...