next turn to john wonderlich. >> my name is john wonderlich, policy director for the foundation.e are a nonpartisan, nonprofit dedicated to using the power of the internet to catalyze greater government transparency. at the heart of our work is the appreciation for the transformation of power of online technology. our technology with vision for government transparency is visible in our organization, which digitized data and create tools presenting information in cages communities and advocacy from more information and makes tools and information, makes sure tools and information are in the hands of journalists, citizens, government employees and everyone between. technology's role as the driver of disruptive change, has become culturally familiar as our role as consumers, family members, and businesspeople have evolved over the last few decades. the internet's role in shaping the friends and citizenship, however, is only just starting to develop. as technology redefines how we interact, our government now has the opportunity to help redefine savitt life, too little to president o

we next turn to john wonderlich. >> i in the policy director for the sunlight foundation. we are in nonprofits company. at the heart of all of our work is an appreciation for the transformational power of on- line technology. peering technology is -- paring technology -- it engages communities and makes tools and information are in the hands of journalists, citizens and everyone in between. technology's role as the driver of change has become culturally familiar, as our roles as consumers and business people have evolved over the last few decades. the internet's role in shaping citizenship is only starting to develop. as technology redefines how we interact, our government has an opportunity to redefine civic life to wreak -- to live up to present obama's vision of creating more transparent democracy. i would like to point out two primary constraints that will determine bell transparent government can become -- to determine how transparent government can be -- can become. as the fcc addressing its mandate to promote access cannot broadband policy should be driven by what t

ornstein, and from personal democracy, ellen goodman, who i see some rare, i hope she's here, john wonderlich from the sunlight foundation, and beth white, who somehow in order to make sure that the country receives the olympics in 2016 in chicago had the great idea seeing if we could elect a president from chicago. that worked out. [laughter] next step is the olympics. the immediate next step is to ask eugene huang to take over. i want to welcome to the fcc as well as everyone from the broad and team. eugene until recently was at the treasury department working on issues around china, and before that, he was in the state of virginia as a secretary of technology, between eugene and noveck and -- we are proving there is innovation east of the mississippi and we look forward to some innovators from rest of the mississippi joining us in this effort. thank you, everyone. i'm looking forward to a productive workshop, and thank you all for being here. [applause] >> thank you, mr. chairman, for those very warm and inspiring opening remarks. it's my distinct privilege to welcome each and every one of