"If youth are to fully participate as engaged and valued members of civil society then we must commit ourselves to their sustained education and awareness of global issues. This is why the Global Youth Forum online community is an essential tool that maximizes the learning potential for students."

Sarah Loewen
International Supervisor
Kitchener-Waterloo YMCA

"Dedicated to bringing technology to bear on international governance issues, [IGLOO] makes information-finding and exchange easy across a range of institutional models and national borders."

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Former Dean of WW School of Public Policy
Princeton University

"The Manufacturing Innovation Network powered by the IGLOO technology is an opportunity that is certainly going to help our manufacturing members, not only in this community, but the larger manufacturing community in Ontario, and eventually in the rest of Canada."

Al Diggins
President and General Manager
Excellence in Manufacturing (EMC)

"The IGLOO Community on Nuclear Energy brings together a select group of individuals to discuss the future of nuclear energy and its implications for global governance. As a tool, the IGLOO Community allows our researchers to work together more effectively and helps them develop recommendations aimed at ensuring that the use of nuclear energy is as safe and secure as possible."

Louise Frechette
Former Deputy-Secretary General
United Nations

"As the original independent public-policy research organization, the Brookings Institution is always looking for ways to connect with scholars and partner-institutions around the world. IGLOO is an excellent means of doing so. It provides a centralized neighborhood in cyberspace where far-flung participants can gather, interact, and collaborate. IGLOO is not just user-friendly but layman-friendly. We welcome the chance to join IGLOO on the leading edge of the technology revolution."

Strobe Talbott
President
The Brookings Institution

"For my members in the developing world this is a chance for them not to work in isolation."

Alistar Edgar
Former Executive Director
The Academic Council on the United Nations Systems (ACUNS)

"With exchange of information that is expressed in words, I think we see a whole new way of linking people and linking ideas... [IGLOO] permits us to take the light of Jefferson's candle and magnify it many, many times around the world."

David Johnston
President
University of Waterloo

"If you have to go 100 miles down the road you can certainly walk, but going by car is much, much faster. (IGLOO) is an efficiency tool that allows you to do what you have to do much quicker."

Jim Balsillie
Co-CEO
Research In Motion (RIM)

"An international community that's connected can get the information it needs, can work quickly together, can respond either to short term crises or to a discussion that takes a longer time to just unfold."

John Siebert
Executive Director
Project Ploughshares

"We have this ongoing conversation which is really quite profound because we can share documents, and that goes well beyond what we would have with just an email exchange."

Patricia Goff
Executive Director
The Academic Council on the United Nations Systems (ACUNS)

"IGLOO is going to allow synergies in cooperation among think tanks, among academics, among practitioners that were not possible before."

Paul Heinbecker
Distinguished Fellow
CIGI

"I am especially intrigued and impressed by the University Course Package within IGLOO... this is a potentially useful capacity building tool the world over."

Rohinton Medhora
Vice-President, Programs
International Development Research Centre

"We live in a global world and so many of the threats we face, such as air pollution or terrorism, don't respect borders. The project (IGLOO) we are investing in today has the potential to help governments work with each other, and with experts and other organizations, to find global solutions to global problems."

Dalton McGuinty
Premier of Ontario

"Supporting groundbreaking and innovative research technologies like IGLOO gives Ontario a front row seat on the future. Both the province and the region will benefit from new technologies, increased scholarship and potential commercial spin-offs."

Joe Cordiano
Former Minister of Economic Development and Trade
Government of Ontario

"IGLOO provides a universally accessible online community which facilitates and strengthens global connections between people, processes and information to further advance research on many topics of global importance."

John English
Former Executive Director
CIGI

"ACUNS.net is an attractive, cost-free, benefit that comes with the IGLOO membership. It gives our members a network for communications, a platform on which we can build research collaborations and access to a wide range of scholarly research resources unmatched by even the resources available at the top think tanks."

Michael Doyle
Past Chair
ACUNS

"IGLOO is a leading edge educational tool that allows my students to access a larger network of scholars, practitioners and peers working on issues of international governance and conflict management. As a network, its value is incremental but also extensive. It gives students global reach, extending learning beyond the traditional classroom walls to a virtual classroom where they can advance their studies and deepen their education. "

Alan Alexandroff
Director of Research at the Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation
Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto