The University of the West Indies has appointed Dr. Hopeton S. Dunn as Director of the UWI Digicel Foundation Programme in Telecommunications Policy and Management, based at the Mona School of Business.
The establishment of a new Programme and Chair in Telecommunications Policy was announced in April, said a Digicel press release.
Kenneth Hall, Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal of the Mona Campus, Professor, said the university extends deep appreciation to Digicel Foundation for its generous support of this new programme, which is the first of its kind at the Mona Campus.
Under Dr. Dunn’s guidance, the pioneering TPM Programme at Mona will offer both teaching and research at the Masters and PhD levels, as well as contribute courses and modules to related UWI graduate and undergraduate programmes already in operation. It will also provide the framework for industry and academic seminars, sponsored research and active policy engagement with the wider communication industry within the Caribbean, the release said.
Dr Dunn is a widely respected Caribbean scholar with an outstanding career in research, writing and public policy formulation in telecommunications and broadcasting development regionally.
Even while on secondment from the UWI, he has been serving in the part-time capacity as Deputy Coordinator and a Course Director of the UWI Masters Degree Programme in Telecommunications Regulation and Policy offered out of the University’s St Augustine Campus, via the Internet.
This Programme is being taken by over 80 graduate students drawn from some 20 countries worldwide and is the first of its kind at UWI.
Dr. Dunn also served as Chairman of Jamaica’s Telecommunications Advisory Council during the transitional stages of the industry from dominance by a monopoly provider to a policy of open competition in mobile services, the release said.
As part of his extensive experience in regulation, he was also Chairman of the Policy and Legislative Committee of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica and a Broadcasting Commissioner for more than six years.
He has published extensively and is a leading regional consultant in telecommunications, media and broadcasting policy issues.
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