Community Outreach (Mar. 203 - present; Rolando Zeledon, Benjamin Sywulka, Roma Jhaveri, and Todd Davies).  The project involves interventions in the design and publicity for EPA.Net, with the aim of expanding organizational and individual participation in the community network.  


Internet Tutorials  (Mar.  2003 - present; Christina Mills, Rolando Zeledon, Benjamin Sywulka, Roma Jhaveri, Todd Davies, and student volunteers).  This project involves the recruiting of Stanford students to design and teach a two-hour Internet tutorial for beginning users at one of the Technology Access Points (TAPs) in East Palo Alto.  Tutorials begin May 20, 2003 and wil l be held at all of the TAPs.  

• Schedule of Internet Tutorials (Spring 2003)
  

Language  Communities  (Jan. 2002 - Feb. 2003; Benjamin Sywulka, Randy Saffold, Roma Jhaveri, and Todd Davies).  This project involved doing interviews and surveys of community members to determine the needs, challenges, and opportunities for the East Palo Alto Community Network among different language and ethnic populations in greater East Palo Alto.  A key finding was that usage of computers and the Internet among East Palo Alto residents is highly correlated with knowing English.  Other results of the project are summarized in the documents below.

• EPA.Net Non-English Language Functionality Report (Winter 2002)

• What I Learned About EPA's Latino Community and Computer Usage (Benjamin Sywulka, Spring 2002)

• Community Democracy Online: A Preliminary Report from East Palo Alto [American Poliitcal Science Association Convention, Boston] (Summer 2002)
  

• Computers and Community in East Palo Alto: Report on the survey of East Palo Alto residents regarding their computer usage and community involvement prior to the launch of the East Palo Alto Community Network (Winter 2003)

Online Dialogue (Jan. - Aug. 2002; Todd Davies, Randy Saffold, Gautam Raghavan, Kim Karen Chen).  This project involved participant observations of the process of community decision making, both on and off of the Internet in East Palo Alto, as well as interviews with key stakeholders in the East Palo Alto Digital Village and One East Palo Alto initiatives.   An important conclusion was that more widespread opportunity for online interactions outside of face-to-face meetings by those involved in community decision making could help lessen the distrust and concentrations of power that sometimes undermine community planning in East Palo Alto.  The project is summarized in the paper below.

• Community Democracy Online: A Preliminary Report from East Palo Alto [American Poliitcal Science Association Convention, Boston] (Summer 2002)

POD:  Program for Online Deliberation (Apr. 2003 - present; Todd Davies and Brendan O'Connor).  This project involves the design, building, and testing of an online meeting space where community groups can hold asynchronous meetings, deliberate and make decisions.   A series of design review sessions is being planned for later this spring (May 30, June 4, and June 9) at locations in Stanford, East Palo Alto, and San Francisco, respectively.  For more information, contact t-d-a-v-i-e-s-@-c-s-l-i-.-s-t-a-n-f-o-r-d-.-e-d-u.