The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society will be having a online call on Thursday June 17 2021 at 8:30 pm to discuss next steps of our Computer Refurbishment Project .
Anyone interested in the topic (and able to help) is welcome to join the call.
Zoom Meeting URL :
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87576670040?pwd=Tk8wRkRWWjhZMkJLWW4wQXVQL2lodz09
Meeting ID: 875 7667 0040
RSVP at info@ttcs.tt for the meeting passcode
The Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TT-CSIRT) has full access to query Trinidad and Tobago Government domains at Have I Been Pwned (HIBP ; https://haveibeenpwned.com/), a useful monitoring service to check whether your email address have been involved in any data breach (where data has been unintentionally exposed to the public). HIBP is run by Troy Hunt and as he notes on his blog post, Trinidad and Tobago is the first Caribbean government to be added to HIBP.
This means that TT-CSIRT can monitor HIBP and be alerted whenever any user with email addresses under .gov.tt have been impacted by data breaches.
HIBP is a great service that you can use. Just go to https://haveibeenpwned.com/ and enter your email address.
HIBP will then search its database of data breaches and shows whether your email address was found on them along with what other data was compromised. The compromised data often included personal information you shared with the service (such as date of birth, username, phone number and physical address) and your password.
You can take steps to re-secure your account at the service by changing your password to a secure, unique password that is NOT used on other services you share data with. If you have been using the same password on other services (a big NO-NO), you should change the password on those services ASAP as any attacker can use your email address and reused password to gain access to your other services.
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) will be involved with Restore a Sense of I Can’s (RSC) Caribbean Girls in ICT 2021 event on Thursday April 22 2021.
In RSC’s Caribbean Girls in ICT (GICT) event, students from 15 Caribbean countries (including Trinidad and Tobago) will be participating in a variety of online sessions on various ICT topics such as coding, robotics, artificial intelligence, digital media and more! To register for RSC’s GICT 2021 event, go to https://cutt.ly/uMHKEW4P
Last year GICT event, the TTCS had a session on Free and Open Source Software.
For GICT 2021, the TTCS will be doing four sessions :
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) will be having an online call on Tuesday March 16 2021 from 8pm.
Come join us as we talk about :
We will be using Zoom for this call.
Zoom Meeting URL :
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89079587746?pwd=K1lDb3kvUEdUaG1rOFhkVTRLL2RyZz09
Meeting ID: 890 7958 7746
Please RSVP for the passcode at info@ttcs.tt ! Attendance is free
Be sure to update to the latest Zoom desktop client at https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting and/or if connecting from mobile, have the Zoom mobile app for iOS or the Zoom mobile app for Android devices. See you on the call!
According to a 22 February 2021 Tweet from Spotify, the streaming music and podcast service, Spotify will be launching in 80+ markets in the new few days which includes Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda, Haiti, Belize, Grenada, Bahamas, St. Kitts and Nevis, Guyana, Dominica, Curaçao and Suriname.
TTCS OSSWIN v3.20, a collection of Free and Open Source Software for Windows is available for download or viewing online at https://ttcsosswin.ttcs.tt/ . With over 90 programs organised in various categories from educational software, Desktop Applications, Graphics and more,
Apart from many software updates, one new program was added : Lively, which allows you to add animated desktop wallpapers to your Windows desktop.
Browse TTCS OSSWIN online at
https://ttcsosswin.ttcs.tt/
You can browse TTCS OSSWIN online at https://ttcsosswin.ttcs.tt/ which features the web interface to learn about Free and Open Source programs in various categories, including screenshots or videos of the programs and a link to the program’s website where you can download the program. The web based UI is responsive, meaning it should be usable on non-Windows small screen mobile phones and tablets.
You can download the entire collection of TTCS OSSWIN as a 7GB file for extracting to your harddrive or USB storage device (or burn on a DVD). The TTCS OSSWIN collection provides a link to install the software directly and in the case of a program providing 32 bit and 64 bit versions installers, TTCS OSSWIN attempts to autodetect whether you are running 64 bit Windows and presents that installer first. The web interface and all screenshots and videos are included in the collection so that you can browse and install software on a Windows computer without internet access.
If you’re want to give comments and feedback or want to assist with this project, then send a email to osswin@ttcs.tt
The fifth annual Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum (TTIGF) will be held from 9am to 1pm on Thursday January 28 2021 and Friday January 2021.
TTIGF2021 will be held online using Zoom. There will also be a livestream on YouTube. Attendance to TTIGF 2021 is FREE! But you must register to attend to get the Zoom link or livestream link
The TTIGF is hosted by the Trinidad and Tobago Multistakeholder Advisory Group (TTMAG), of which the Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society is a member and serving on the TTMAG Board.
The theme of TTIGF2021 is “Digitalization : The ‘New Norm’”, TTIGF 2021 features 4 panel sessions with selected experts and respected professionals :
TTIGF 2021 will also have an open forum session where participants can share comments, questions, solutions and best practices on internet governance locally, regionally and globally.
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) will be having an online call on Thursday January 21 2021 at 8:00pm
Come join us as we chat about :
Bring your own tech topics!
We will be using Zoom for this conference call.
Zoom Meeting URL https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82669574164?pwd=aG9KVHMwNlkyd2JaTmdUUFFydXowZz09
Meeting ID: 826 6957 4164
Please RSVP for the passcode at info@ttcs.tt ! Attendance is free
Be sure to update to the latest Zoom desktop client at https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting and/or if connecting from mobile, have the Zoom mobile app for iOS or the Zoom mobile app for Android devices. See you on the call!
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society and the ISOC Trinidad and Tobago Chapter invite you to a roundtable discussion about the regional Internet outage on December 7 2020.
The date and time of the roundtable discussion will be held via Zoom on Tuesday December 15 2020 from 7:30pm to 9pm local time.
Persons at the roundtable include :
Zoom Meeting URL : https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81843442925?pwd=amptVDAyTXh6Mm1yZ0d1MUpINllNdz09Meeting Zoom Meeting ID: 818 4344 2925
Passcode: 976449
Be sure to update to the latest Zoom client at https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting and/or if connecting from mobile,
have the Zoom mobile app for iOS or the Zoom mobile app for Android devices. See you there!
The Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society (TTCS) has refurbished and delivered over 200 computers over the past few months to various schools and students to continue education being done online due to COVID-19.
Working with Restore a Sense of I Can (RSC), we received and refurbished over 170 computers. We have also refurbished and delivered 30 computers directly to students and schools in need using machines, parts and financial donations made directly to the TTCS.
Refurbishing computers involves several steps :
We want to continue helping students by refurbishing as many computers as we can..here’s how YOU can help :
If you have (preferably) working computers, SSDs, memory you’re not using that is less than 10 years old and running either Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or Windows 10, complete the form at
https://ttcs.tt/donate-computers
Someone from TTCS will contact you to coordinate pickup.
If all you can do right now is make a financial donation to this project, we sincerely need and appreciate your support. The TTCS will use such donations to purchase parts to refurbish computers.
Make a donation to :
Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society,
Republic Bank Account #160136544031,
U.W.I Branch, Trinidad.
Be sure to email us at info@ttcs.tt when you’ve donated so we can acknowledge and thank you!
Email us at info@ttcs.tt !
If you wish to be involved with computer refurbishment or assist with other TTCS projects, sign up at https://ttcs.tt/jointtcs/
