The Federal Communications Commission today held the first in a series of public meetings aiming to guide the agency's work in developing a plan to deliver high-speed Internet access to all Americans.

Throughout August and September, the FCC plans to hold about 20 of these so-called staff workshops to flesh out various aspects of the national broadband strategy, which it is due to deliver to Congress in February.

This morning's session, which focused on open government and citizen engagement through the Internet, was in many ways a sales pitch extolling the virtues of high-speed connectivity and explaining why broadband matters.

"Broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of our generation," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said.

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