App helps Inuit hunters navigate thinning sea ice in Canadian Arctic
- Siku app aims draw on traditional knowledge
- ‘We copying what our parents used to do, but in modern ways’
A new mobile phone app has been devised to help Inuit hunters in the Canadian north avoid an increasingly dangerous effect of climate change: unpredictable sea ice.
Developed under the guidance of the Arctic Eider Society, the app aims to draw on the catalogue of traditional knowledge that has helped Inuit thrive in an unforgiving region.