Carol Darr is the director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet and an associate research professor at the Graduate School of Political Management of The George Washington University. During the Clinton-Gore Administration, she served as the Acting General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce and as Associate Administrator of the Office of International Affairs in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. She also chaired the International Telecommunications Working Group of the interagency Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF), and was part of the U.S. delegation to the G7 Information Society Conference in Brussels.

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