Stimulus ties spending on broadband to civic participation

A Federal Communications Commission initiative to create a nationwide plan for expanding high-speed Internet access also is expanding e-government, FCC officials said. "In coming up with the national broadband plan, we are really practicing what we are preaching in terms of trying to solicit public input far and wide," said Eugene Huang, the government operations director for FCC's national broadband task force. "The goal has been to make sure that this is an open and participatory process."