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AFRINIC Budget 2013
Budget Overview
Operational Budget Summary
We are planning a 16% increase for 2013 in terms of membership revenue compared to the 2012 budget. Our operational expenses is, however, expected to grow by 14% which computed allow us to expect a surplus of USD 85,000 at the end of the exercise. The table below gives a summary of the budget. More details can be found in section 7 of this document.
Table-2: 2013 Budget summary
| Budget 2013 | Budget 2012 | Δ Movements | Δ % | |
| Incomes Members | ||||
| Membership | 3,502,400 | 3,017,128 | 485,272 | 16% |
| Sponsorships | 185,000 | 166,000 | 19,000 | 11% |
| Total revenues | 3,687,400 | 3,183,128 | 504,272 | 16% |
| Expenditures: | ||||
| Administrative | 2,760,012 | 2,307,393 | 452,619 | 20% |
| Distribution | 838,791 | 805,343 | 33,448 | 4% |
| Total expenditures | 3,598,803 | 3,112,736 | 486,067 | 16% |
| Other Income/(Costs) | -5,000 | -35,000 | 30,000 | -86% |
| Forecasted Total surplus | 83,597 | 35,392 | 48,205 | 136% |
Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)
In general terms, our CAPEX in 2013 will significantly grow compared to the previous year mainly because of the upgrade and renewal of our core infrastructure and project to move to a fully virtualized environment. We have also planned for Capital expenditures for the expansion of some of our community support projects such as DNSSec, RPKI, RSCP(1) and DSP(2)
Table-3: 2013 CAPEX summary
| Capital Expenditure : Details | US$ |
| Core Infrastructure upgrade and Implementation of virtualization (Phase-1) | 255,000 |
| Equipment and tools for Community Support Projects | 158,000 |
| Various Hardware and Software for staff | 30,000 |
| Furniture and Sundry | 5,000 |
| Total All Capex | 448,000 |
Membership Growth
Our budget is based on a planned 21% membership growth in 2013 for a total income of 3.5 million. The biggest growth is expected in the low level categories (Extra-Small to Small), which will account for 33% of our expected growth. It is to noteworthy that this forecast revenue does not take into consideration changes in categories (which will result from additional allocation to existing member during the course of the year), which will only be reflected in the 2014 budget as impact of change in allocation size is only computed in membership fee category during the next year's billing exercise.
- RSCP: The Root Server Copy Project is a project that supports deployment of Anycast instances of Root Servers in Africa region. AFRINIC currently work with four RO (L, I and F)
- DSP: The DNS support Programme is a programme launched by AFRINIC in 2012 to support ccTLDs across by offering them to host one of their DNS on our Anycast infrastructure. We are planning to deploy few nodes of the platform across AFRICA in 2013
