Sheshegwaning First Nation Creates Custom Mobile Communications App for Pandemic Response & Vital Community Messaging
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Monday, July 26, 2021
The technology also allows Band Administration to collect information directly from their membership using fillable forms and surveys.
Key Points:
- The technology also allows Band Administration to collect information directly from their membership using fillable forms and surveys.
- When asked for comment, Chief Dean Roy explained why Sheshegwaning First Nation has decided to develop their own app: The Covid pandemic and accompanying lockdown measures presented us with a strong reason to move more of our communications online.
- We need to be able to reach our members with vital information no matter where they are, at any time.
- Approximately 112 kilometres west of Little Current, on the northern shoreline of Manitoulin Island, Sheshegwaning First Nation is a community of the Odawa Nation of Anishnaabek and spans 10,124 acres of forests and lakes.