Steven is a well-known expert on cyberinfrastructure, cyberactivism, Internet privacy policy, and knowledge transfer on the web. He serves in an advisory role on several global, national and local web initiatives - notably, the World Academy of Young Scientists, the Mother-Child Health International Research Network, the Strategic Training Initiative in Research in Reproductive Health Sciences , the Better Broadband Toolkit, and many others. Steven is also on the board of Catalytic Communities, a project manager at Acorn Active Media - an employee-run tech collective - and an advisor to The Ethos Group.