Steve Anderson (activist)
Steve Anderson is a Vancouver-based Canadian open media advocate, writer, video producer, and social media consultant. He writes a monthly syndicated column called “Media Links”. Anderson was instrumental in starting a nationwide grassroots campaign to stop the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission from allowing usage-based billing and ending flat-rate Internet access in Canada.
National campaign
Anderson is the founder of OpenMedia.ca, a Canadian nonprofit organization working to advance and support an open and innovative communications system in Canada.Anderson was instrumental in sparking a nationwide public campaign against a decision by the CRTC to allow Bell Canada to impose usage-based billing, which would effectively end Canada's flat-rate Internet access. His efforts reached the prime minister's office attracted international attention.