Webinar: SIKU Indigenous Knowledge App
The Indigenous Centre for Cumulative Effects is pleased to host a webinar with Candice Sudlovenick of Arctic Eider Society on SIKU The Indigenous Knowledge App.
SIKU is a mobile and web platform created by and for harvesters with more than 40,000 users in more than 150 Indigenous communities from Inuit Nunaat (Greenland to Alaska), and an increasing number of Indigenous communities in southern Canada.
SIKU is a set of tools and services for Indigenous harvesters and land users for travel safety and environmental monitoring that are designed to support Indigenous self-determination and Indigenous Knowledge mobilization through the use of language and terminology systems.
SIKU supports language and education by featuring wildlife and ice descriptions and terminology in the usersâ regional Indigenous dialect, supporting education and fluency. With over 100,000 posts made by 15+ Indigenous dialect regions, SIKU has become a leading space for Indigenous knowledge, sharing stories and Indigenous language use in Canada.
Guest Speakers
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- Siksik Sammurtok-LavalleeÂ
- Dirk Werle, CSA
- Dalia Laoubi, CSA