{"id":850772,"date":"2026-08-08T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850772\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:00:20","slug":"wiikwemkoong-building-a-digital-foundation-for-seven-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850772\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiikwemkoong building a digital foundation for seven generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Approves new back-up data centre for Point Grondine<\/p>\n<p>WIIKWEMKOONG\u2014Michael McCormick is on a mission. The hard-charging former Marine and current Chief Technology Officer for Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, Mr. McCormick is responsible for future-proofing the Territory\u2019s computing infrastructure while providing secure and reliable IT services to more than 500 band employees and the wider community.<\/p>\n<p>It all started back in 2022, when the Wiikwemkoong band office was hit with a devastating flood that damaged computer servers and the cabling underpinning critical IT infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were down for four days,\u201d recalls Wiikwemkoong Chief Executive Officer Shelley Trudeau. \u201cThat was totally unacceptable, so we decided to bring in a dedicated person that could help modernize our IT infrastructure and develop local expertise to make us self-sufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Data-centre-2.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"  \/>CTO Mike McCormick stands next to the secure server racks that will help preserve Wiikwemkoong\u2019s data sovereignty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Approves new back-up data centre for Point Grondine WIIKWEMKOONG\u2014Michael McCormick is on a mission. The hard-charging former Marine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-850772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}