Dr. Hopeton Dunn is the Director of the Caribbean Programme in Telecommunications Policy and Technology Management (TPM) at the Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies, in Jamaica, where he holds the Digicel Foundation Chair in Telecoms Policy and Management.
Dr. Dunn is also the current Chairman of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica and acting Secretary-General of the IAMCR . He is a former Chairman of Jamaica's Telecommunications Advisory Council (JTAC), which provided advice to the Jamaican government during the country’s transition from a monopoly to a multiplayer market in telecom services. He currently serves as a member of the Jamaica National Commission for UNESCO, and a long-standing board member of the National Library of Jamaica.
His publications include the books: Media Democracy and Renewal in Southern Africa, edited with Keyan Tomaselli (IAP Colorado, 2001); Emancipation: The Lessons and the Legacy, (Arawak Publications, Kingston, 2007); and Globalization, Communication and Caribbean Identity (Ian Randle and St Martin’s Press New York, 1995), as well as numerous scholarly journal articles relating to New Media, ICTs and telecommunications in the Caribbean and Southern Africa.
His most recent research projects include a national household survey and ethnographic study on mobile telephony usage among low-income Jamaican households. He co-authored a three-country research survey of telecommuting practices and telework resources in the anglophone Caribbean, carried out for the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) of Canada. Dr. Dunn was the lead consultant with Professor Evan Duggan in the re-design of Jamaica’s National ICT Strategic Plan 2007-2012, commissioned by the Government of Jamaica. He is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jamaica’s cultural cable channel CTV and of the Creative Production and Training Centre (CPTC), a public sector broadcasting and multimedia facility.
Dr Dunn is a member of the governing Council of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and Co-Chair of its Communications Policy and Technology (CP&T) Section. He is a leading member of Diálogo Regional sobre Sociedad de la Información (DIRSI), a network of academic specialists in ICT research from the Caribbean and Latin American.
