Integra is please to announce the hiring of Tyrone Hall as Research Specialist! After a successful summer interning for Integra for the Global Broadband and Innovations Program, Tyrone will join us as a Research Specialist, focusing on Universal Service Funds, ICTs in Agricultural Development and more.

Tyrone recently completed his MA in International Development and Social Change at Clark University. He has three years of experience as a journalist and development consultant. Tyrone has worked on microfinance, health, agriculture and ICT projects in Austria, Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and the United States. He is the 2010 winner of the ACP-EU Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development contest after defending his proposal to tackle Jamaica’s two main agricultural challenges: information asymmetrics and praedial larceny. He has also done consulting projects with international organizations to bridge and advance the intersection between youth, ICT, agriculture and health.

Recently, he designed entrepreneurship curriculum guides linking youth, agriculture and ICT for use in Kenya and Rwanda. Tyrone has also carried research on ICT and health in Haiti. He blogs regularly about youth development and the role of ICTs.

Tyrone won a UNAIDS Journalism Fellowship, that allowed him to attend and cover the AIDS 2010 Conference in Austria from a youth perspective. He blogged extensively about the need for a rights based response to HIV/AIDS. Tyrone is also a Compton Environment and Sustainable Development Fellow, having examined the environmental impact assessment process in the Caribbean.