CAIDA Sponsorship Information

CAIDA welcomes sponsors!

This page provides general information on sponsorship levels and benefits. If interested, please email sponsorship@caida.org for more information.

CAIDA generally considers three levels of sponsorship: Affiliate, Member, and Sponsor. Typical two-year agreements are described below, but terms, cost and benefits are negotiable.

Benefit	Public	Affiliate	Member	Sponsor
access to Internet data collected by CAIDA	limited	yes	yes	yes
early access to CAIDA publications		yes	yes	yes
participate in select research efforts		yes	yes	yes
request assistance of CAIDA personnel in research efforts		yes	yes	yes
request CAIDA personnel for speaking engagements		yes	yes	yes
send one attendee to a select ISMA workshop		yes	yes	yes
send one participant to any ISMA workshop			yes	yes
send multiple participants to any ISMA workshop				yes
designate a special project to be included into the CAIDA Program Plan				yes

Annual cost		$7,500	$25,000	$100,000

Affiliate -- $15,000 ($7,500 annually)
- Affiliates are entitled to the following benefits:
  - access to Internet data collected by CAIDA (subject to Acceptable Use Policy for each type of data);
  - early access to CAIDA's program plan and select publications;
  - participation of a representative at select CAIDA-sponsored Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA) workshops;
- Affiliates may participate in select research efforts and traffic measurement activities that are part of the CAIDA Program Plan. Or, conversely, Affiliates can request involvement of CAIDA personnel in the member organization's research efforts, measurement activities, external conference or workshop activities, or speaking engagement. The level and conditions of this participation must be determined and agreed upon in advance.
Small (fewer than 25 employees) businesses, commercial research and educational organizations, and non-profits may join at the CAIDA affiliate level.
Member -- $50,000 ($25,000 annually)
- Members receive the Affiliate benefits (see above) plus the ability to send a participant to any Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA) workshops;
Medium-sized (25-100 employees) companies, international and governmental research and educational organizations, and non-profits may join starting at the Member level to support the rigorous curation and stewardship of Internet data at CAIDA.
Sponsor -- $200,000 ($100,000 annually)
- Sponsors receive the Member benefits (see above) plus the ability to send participants to any Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA) workshops;
- Sponsors may designate a special project of interest to them to be included into the CAIDA Program Plan.
Large (over 100 employees) companies and organizations may join as Sponsors to support the world-class Internet research at CAIDA.

To those interested, the template of sponsorship agreement details other rights and responsibilities of CAIDA and its sponsors.

Please request additional information at sponsorship@caida.org or info@caida.org.