About us

Citizen Digital Facilitation –also known as Facilitación Digital Ciudadana- was officially registered with the Ministry of Industry of Canada as an international non governmental and non profit organization on October 17, 2000 in accordance with the provisions of the Canada Corporations Act.

The founders of CDF believed that the creation of this international NGO based in Canada could be a significant contribution in assisting the empowerment of citizens’ organizations and in strengthening their capabilities of exercising citizen diplomacy in various multilateral organizations and locally. Although the CDF has an international and global scope, it focuses its work on Latin America, the Caribbean, and their respective Diasporas. (For more details see Programmes and Projects)

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is elected and partially renewed every five years. It conducts an annual regular meeting as well as additional meetings that may be convened at the request of any Director. Board members serve on a voluntary basis and receive no remuneration for playing that role.

The Board of Director appoints one of their members to serve as President as well as another member to serve as Executive Director. They are expected to play those roles on a non-remunerated basis. When a Director is asked by the Board to provide substantive time to develop a specific programme or project, he/she shall expect to be remunerated as a consultant for exercising that function . More information

Associate Members

CDF considers the organizations with whom it works in partnership on specific projects as temporary associate members during the time that the project is implemented. As such, our partners / associate members have included, among others, Human Rights Internet (Canada), American Friends Service Committee (USA), Mundo Afro (Uruguay), CRIES (Argentina) and Rostros y Voces (Mexico). More information