"Through our scientific and technological genius, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we have not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood. But somehow, and in some way, we have got to do this. We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools"
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Harvard Heights
Community Wireless Project

Created in 2002, our Community Wireless Project has provided free wireless broadband access and donated computers to families within the Mid-City Los Angeles neighborhood of Harvard Heights. This project was developed to bring Internet access to lower income families and to serve as a tool for building community among the area’s ethnically and economically diverse residents. Our goal is to also develop the Harvard Heights Community Network -- an online community network that will feature content created by and for the local community focusing on education, cultural, civic, and community development resources, local issues, and information.

The project's first major milestone, was reached with the mounting of an external omnidirectional antenna on King Day, January 19, 2002 -- the first neighborhood wireless node.

Our special thanks to our six teams of students (from 2002-2004) from the USC Engineering Writing Program for their contributions toward the development of this project. In addition, we acknowledge and thank our Spring 2005 USC Computer Science team for their work in developing the Harvard Heights Community Network prototype.