Our Community

The Caribbean Internet community gathers here.

CaribNOG brings together the practitioners, policymakers, educators, mentors, and partners who share responsibility for the resilience, security, and future of the region’s digital systems. Our community is built on technical seriousness, mutual trust, and the conviction that Caribbean Internet infrastructure must be shaped by the people who live and work within it.

We call that Networking for Caribbean Development. Technical networking and human networking, working in tandem. That is what CaribNOG has always been.

Explore how to belong, how to contribute, and how to build with us.

Who We Are

CaribNOG is the Caribbean Network Operators Group: the region’s primary technical community institution for Internet infrastructure practitioners and their partners.

CaribNOG serves network operators, engineers, systems architects, security professionals, public sector technologists, institutional leaders, mentors, students, sponsors, and local hosts. Its authority comes from service, continuity, technical credibility, and the confidence of people who return because the community serves work that matters.

The human network CaribNOG has built allows technical knowledge to move across territories, experience to become shared memory, and professional confidence to grow into regional capacity. That human network is CaribNOG’s most consequential contribution to Caribbean Internet resilience.

CaribNOG is a nonprofit technical community institution sustained by contribution. Its strength comes from the practitioners, volunteers, partners, sponsors, hosts, and institutions who recognise the importance of a trusted regional space for operational knowledge, professional formation, and Internet infrastructure development. Its independence of judgment comes from the clarity of its mission and the discipline of its governance.

CaribNOG believes in the Caribbean. That belief is a disciplined conviction that Caribbean people, institutions, practitioners, and countries possess the capacity to learn, build, adapt, lead, and contribute meaningfully to the global Internet community. It is a conviction expressed through service, not stated through promotion.

The CaribNOG Ways

The CaribNOG Ways describe the lived practices through which our governing values become visible in the life of the community. They name the habits, disciplines, instincts, standards, and postures that shape how we convene, teach, decide, challenge, welcome, develop people, protect trust, and serve the Caribbean Internet community over time.

Ten Ways carry the convictions we have protected, the habits we have made normal, and the responsibilities we have learned to hold.

We are a community. We practise care through service. We develop people. We carry responsibility beyond ourselves. We protect the integrity of the work. We build trust before it is needed. We safeguard our community space. We welcome people into standards. We believe in the Caribbean. We are driven by purpose and duty.

How We Gather

CaribNOG’s community gathers in multiple forms throughout the year. The Regional Meeting is the centrepiece: two three-day gatherings that bring together the Caribbean’s Internet operations community for technical exchange, executive engagement, deep-dive labs, and community connection. Working groups, webinars, workshops, mentoring relationships, and the mailing list keep the community active and connected between meetings.

Every form of participation is open. Find the one that fits where you are.

Participation Channel	Who It Serves	How to Engage
Regional Meeting	All community members	Register through the Events section
Technical Track	Network operators and engineers	Attend, present, or participate in peer sessions
Executive Track	Policymakers, regulators, executives	Register for the Executive Track programme
Labs and Deep Dive	Practitioners at every level	Sign up for hands-on technical sessions
Working Groups	Practitioners by specialisation	Join a working group
NextGen Programme	Students and early-career technologists	Apply through the NextGen page
Women in CaribNOG	Women practitioners at every career stage	Join through the WIC page
Mentoring	Emerging professionals and experienced practitioners	Engage through the Formation section
Mailing List	All community members	Subscribe through the Mailing List section
Sponsorship and Partnership	Organisations and institutions	Engage through the Participate section
Local Hosting	Organisations in Caribbean territories	Apply through the Host a Meeting page

Women in CaribNOG

Women in CaribNOG develops and supports women practitioners across the Caribbean Internet operations community.

Network engineers, systems architects, security professionals, policymakers, educators, and students: Women in CaribNOG creates space for women at every career stage to grow their skills, build professional relationships, find mentors, and take their place in the community that builds and secures the region’s Internet.

CaribNOG’s community is stronger when more of its people are in the room. Women in CaribNOG makes that happen.

The programme offers community recognition, mentoring connections, peer networks, and participation pathways within the CaribNOG Regional Meeting and the wider community calendar.

NextGen

NextGen is CaribNOG’s programme for the Caribbean Internet community’s next generation of practitioners.

If you are a student, a junior engineer, or an early-career technologist building toward professional practice in network operations, NextGen is your entry point. You will find mentors who have built the systems you are learning about, peers on the same path, and a community that takes your development seriously.

NextGen gives you access to the CaribNOG Regional Meeting at a rate that reflects your stage of career. It connects you to the mailing list, the working groups, and the practitioner relationships that form the backbone of Caribbean Internet operations.

Financial support for NextGen participation is available. Scholarships and travel assistance are offered through the Participate section.

Working Groups

CaribNOG’s working groups carry the community’s technical and governance work between Regional Meetings. Each group focuses on a specific domain relevant to Caribbean Internet operations, meeting regularly to develop guidance, share operational experience, and produce outputs that strengthen community practice.

Working Group	Focus
Routing Security and Hygiene	MANRS adoption, RPKI implementation, and routing hygiene across Caribbean operators.
IPv6 Deployment	IPv6 transition planning and implementation across Caribbean networks and institutions.
Internet Exchange Points	IXP establishment, operation, and interconnection, in coordination with caribixps.com.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection	Incident identification, response, and recovery capacity across Caribbean digital infrastructure.
Disaster Resilience and Response	Coordinated technical response frameworks for infrastructure disruption across the region.

Working groups are open to CaribNOG community members with relevant operational experience or genuine interest in contributing to the group’s work.

Mailing List

The CaribNOG mailing list has connected Caribbean Internet practitioners since the community’s founding. Operational questions find peer answers here. Emerging issues surface early. The community’s collective intelligence moves fastest through this channel.

Joining the list is one of the most direct ways to engage with the region’s Internet operations community year-round.