Internet News.com
By Kenneth Corbin
March 2, 2010

The Federal Communications Commission outlined more details of the comprehensive broadband plan it plans to deliver to Congress later this month, laying out a series of recommendations for using Web-based technology to drive civic engagement with the government.

The commission will call on all branches of government to continue the early efforts underway in the executive branch to bring more data online, and urge government officials to accelerate the use of social media tools to engage the public, Eugene Huang, the director of government operations at the FCC’s broadband task force said on Monday.

“Civic engagement is the lifeblood of our democracy,” Huang said at an event hosted by M.I.T. “Broadband can enable citizens to engage in their democracy through a variety of broadband-enabled tools.”

For the past few weeks, the FCC has been previewing various components of the broadband plan, which it was directed to create by last year’s economic stimulus bill.

Read More