The Real Y2K Issue
In Cory's Washington DC report, John Hughes, Mayor's Office of Emergency Management New York City says...
<< To select our city-wide mission-critical functions, we sent out a questionnaire last Jan, and identified 900 systems. Some of these were non-critical, so we weeded these to 300. 300 were too much, so we decided to do public safety and payments, and these were about 75 mission-critical systems. We started to identify the critical systems, prioritized what could fail, and then worked these [[issues]]. We worked the process through from the time a 911 call comes in until the time someone goes home from the hospital, and mapped it. We wrote how to improve the 73 processes, and asked the commissioners how to improve the contingency plans.
In September, we were told to weed the 73 systems down to 25. For example, the 911 system is VIP, but the traffic lights! We did contingency planning on patient care from A to Z, but it was hard to get [[everything identified??]] There is the Department of Education, the Board of Health, Health and Human Services, emergency intervention services, etc. There are a lot of human services in NYC. >>
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Ken,
So out of 900 CRITICAL systems, NYC is fixing 25! ... To say nothing of the rest of the non-critical, but useful systems ... How much of NYC is going to function? ... How many other cities are like this?
You really need to get out more and ask the people in the trenches what is going on, not the PR experts.
:-))
John
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