The Internet was born on openness, has flourished on openness and depends on openness for its future potential. This incredible technology intersects with just about every great challenge confronting our nation -- jobs, education, energy, the environment, news, international competitiveness, health care, equal opportunity. By Mignon Clyburn and Michael J. Copps



The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform appointed by President Obama is preoccupied with the federal government's growing fiscal deficit. So is America Speaks, a nonprofit group that held the first of a series of town-hall meetings on the subject in Philadelphia last weekend