Belgium goverment and Y2K
Subject: Awareness: the Belgian case
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 15:01:54 +0100 (MET)
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From: icerckel@arcadis.be (Ivo Cerckel)
Subject: Awareness: the Belgian case
Hi Gang:
The government of the Kingdom of Belgium has finally decided on February 6, 1998 to set up (but has not yet installed) a "Millennium Forum 2000". The Forum aims at enabling the smooth transition of ALL systems to the year 2000 (what about time constraints?). Apart from a lot of bureaucrats and two businessmen, some university professors will be included in the Forum, but only from the applied exact sciences (does Y2K-remediation not require an interdisciplinary triage approach?)
The full text of the project is only available on the net in Dutch, German and French. I did not see the URL. The way to get there is
belgium.fgov.be, then to choose the language, then to wait until you see "council of ministers" appearing, then choose the date of February 6 and finally the subject matter.
Bill G. was last week in Brussels. One newspaper invited on Wednesday ten readers to ask him a question at breakfast. I have not been selected with my Y2K-question. On Saturday, the report of the breakfast was published in the paper. NO MENTION OF THE YEAR 2000. Hmm, is this a non-issue?
As a visitor at the computer fair, where I was distributing pamphlets on Sunday, put it: "my girlfriend is taking care of this in the company where she's working, so why bother?"
Why is it that I'm a doom and gloomer?
Ivo |
