Steve Huter is the Director for the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and a Research Associate at the University of Oregon.  Steve has worked with network engineers, scientists, and Internet technology developers in more than one hundred countries around the world to help build Internet infrastructure and establish partnerships in support of research and education networking.

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.Huter was heralded as a "Global Connector," a select group of people who have made major contributions to the connectivity and use of the Internet on a global scale.