In the early 1990s, Steve was a key actor within a small group of organizations including the NSRC, the Internet Society, and the Association for Progressive Communications, which provided support to dozens of nascent networks around the world using store-and-forward (FidoNet and UUCP) technologies as a steppingstone to TCP/IP and full Internet connectivity.
Building on the relationships established in that era, he helps cultivate a community of technical professionals on a global scale to train indigenous network engineers who enable continuous progress for expanding the Internet into new areas, with a focus on affordable access. He enhances international Internet connections, in part, by facilitating the flow of substantial amounts of funding for technical and financial support from multinational organizations, government agencies, private foundations, and industry to emerging networks in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
He currently serves on organizational, technical, advisory, and program committees for the African Network Operators Group; the African Research and Education Network group; the Caribbean Knowledge Learning Network; the Consorcio Ecuatoriano para el Desarrollo de Internet Avanzado of Ecuador; the Fundación Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes; the International Centre for Theoretical Physics; the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers; the Internet Research Laboratory at the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand; the Middle East Network Operators Group; the National Science Foundation; the Pacific Network Operators Group; the South Asian Network Operators Group; the Tanzanian Network Operators Group; and the UbuntuNet Alliance.
