IkkeSI
IkkeSI is a nonprofit research and educational community dedicated to examining measurement systems that lie outside the International System of Units (SI). The group assembles scholars, educators, and practitioners to document, analyze, and discuss non-SI units, historical variants, and cultural contexts of measurement. The aim is to clarify how different units affect science communication, technology design, and everyday literacy.
Origin and development: IkkeSI began as an online forum in the early 2010s for researchers interested in
Activities: The core outputs include a peer-oriented series of articles, a searchable repository of non-SI units
Organization and access: Governance is provided by a rotating steering committee drawn from its international membership.
Reception and impact: IkkeSI is primarily cited as a resource for historians of science and measurement literacy