The Network Innovation and Development Alliance (NIDA) is an international, industry-based, non-profit social group formed voluntarily by industry organizations, universities, research institutes, companies, and enterprises from all over the world, focusing on promoting fixed network technology innovation and industrial upgrades.

Mission: Define the evolution path and network construction standards of global Internet infrastructure, and drive the upgrade of the data communication industry.

Purpose: Focus on fostering a global industry consensus, build an international industry-university-research-application ecosystem, drive technological innovation in the fixed network field, and promote its sustainable development.

Business scope: Research the development trends of the data communication industry, define the next-generation Internet and its architecture oriented to 2030, and promote standardization, testing, and certification, as well as joint technological innovation and application among players of the industry-university-research-application ecosystem, among other related work.