CaribNOG’s community runs on contribution: time, expertise, financial support, institutional partnership, and the commitment to keep showing up for Caribbean Internet development.
Every form of contribution has a place here. Sponsors, partners, hosts, donors, scholarship funders, and mentors each play a distinct and valued role in the community’s work. Find the one that fits your capacity and your purpose.
CaribNOG’s contribution framework gives organisations and individuals a clear, structured way to support the Caribbean Internet operations community. Ten contribution classes cover the full range of ways an organisation or individual can participate: financial sponsorship, in-kind support, knowledge contribution, technical expertise, equipment and infrastructure, training and capacity building, content and communications, research and data, hosting and logistics, and institutional partnership.
Contributions are available at multiple duration levels, from event-specific to multi-year institutional commitments, and across purpose areas aligned to CaribNOG’s mission: community building, technical education, infrastructure development, research, scholarships, publications, regional outreach, governance, disaster resilience, and institutional partnership.
Sponsoring CaribNOG connects your organisation to the Caribbean’s technical community for Internet infrastructure. Your support enables the Regional Meeting, the webinar programme, NextGen scholarships, working group activity, and the formation work that strengthens Caribbean Internet operations year-round.
CaribNOG sponsorship is purposive and disciplined. Sponsors are recognised appropriately and acknowledged publicly. The community’s programme, editorial independence, and governance remain CaribNOG’s responsibility. Sponsors support the mission. The community carries it.
CaribNOG partners with organisations whose work is aligned to Caribbean digital development: Regional Internet Registries, telecommunications authorities, academic institutions, development organisations, and the global Internet infrastructure community.
Current institutional partners include ARIN, the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, the Caribbean Datacenter Association, LACNIC, ISOC, ICANN, and Packet Clearing House. These relationships carry mutual benefit: CaribNOG’s community gains access to global expertise, resources, and institutional networks; partners gain direct engagement with the Caribbean’s technical community and contribution to the region’s digital development.
Hosting a CaribNOG Regional Meeting brings the Caribbean’s Internet operations community to your territory. It connects your local technical community to regional peers, creates direct exposure to global operational knowledge and standards, and places your country at the centre of a regional conversation about Internet infrastructure, resilience, and digital development.
Each meeting is delivered in partnership with a local host organisation that provides the logistical platform: venue, local coordination, connectivity facilitation, and community engagement. CaribNOG’s programme committee retains editorial authority over all meeting content. CaribNOG’s operational standards govern the technical environment, branding, and community protocols.
Hosting is a significant undertaking and a significant opportunity. CaribNOG’s hosting framework gives local hosts the clarity they need: precise standards, documented responsibilities, and a formal agreement that protects both parties and ensures the meeting delivers the quality the community expects.
CaribNOG merchandise carries the community’s identity beyond the meeting room. Wear it to a regional conference and someone will recognise it. Use it in a workshop and it signals where you stand in the Caribbean Internet community. Give it to a student entering the field and tell them what it represents.
Our store carries a curated range of high-quality branded items. Everything we offer reflects the community’s character: serious, warm, Caribbean, and built to last.
CaribNOG is a nonprofit technical community institution. Every donation goes directly to the work: the Regional Meeting, the NextGen programme, working group activity, the webinar series, research outputs, and the operational costs of keeping the Caribbean Internet operations community connected and active.
CaribNOG governs its resources with the same seriousness it brings to its technical standards. Donations are managed transparently, reported in the annual report, and directed to the programmes and activities that serve the community’s mission. No donation supports commercial interests or institutional overhead beyond what the mission requires.
Your contribution, at any level, makes the work possible.
CaribNOG’s scholarships and fellowships support emerging Caribbean Internet professionals who need financial assistance to participate in the community’s programmes and meetings.
Scholarships cover Regional Meeting registration, travel support, and accommodation assistance for NextGen participants and early-career practitioners who demonstrate commitment to Caribbean Internet development. Fellowships support deeper engagement over an extended period, including mentoring relationships and programme participation across multiple meetings.
Apply if you are an emerging practitioner who wants to be part of the CaribNOG community and needs support to get there.
Fund a scholarship if your organisation wants to invest in the next generation of Caribbean Internet professionals.