Supporting STEM in Remote Regions
More students in remote, rural, and Indigenous communities in Canada will have opportunities to become proficient in science, technology, engineering,...
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Siku is the Inuktitut word for “sea ice.” It’s also the name of a new app: an Inuit-led social media project, developed by the Arctic Eider Society, that is designed to help hunters and other community members navigate and share knowledge about a northern landscape in flux.
Available on both mobile and web platforms, SIKU provides tools and services to support ice safety, language preservation, knowledge exchange, safe travel and self-determination. Joel Heath, Executive Director of the Arctic Eider Society, explains that Inuit were already using social media platforms like Facebook to trade knowledge—but that meant giving away their intellectual property. Furthermore, limitations on those platforms made them inadequate for sharing knowledge over time.
