Manitoulin District

Sheshegwaning First Nation Creates Custom Mobile Communications App for Pandemic Response & Vital Community Messaging

Retrieved on: 
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.