The Global Dimensions Of The Millennium Bug

Hearing on the ways that the U.S. government and industry can play a stronger role to ensure that their foreign counterparts are effectively addressing the Year 2000 computer problem. Examines the steps that are being undertaken to correct the problem in other nations, methods that can ensure that computers around the world will still be able to communicate with each other in the new millennium, and the role that international bodies have in furthering the worldwide solutions. Witnesses: The Hon. Ahmad Kamal, U.N.; Info. Technology Assoc. of America; KMPG Peat Marwick LLP; the Gartner Group, Inc.; and the Y2K Investor.