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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (1354)	3/30/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

LEADERSHIP IN THE UK III - '...an item for discussion by the coming meeting of the G8 countries' Blair to hire 20,000 for millennium bug army By Anthony Bevins, Political Editor A 20,000-STRONG army of "Bug Busters" is to be trained to tackle the threat posed by the millennium computer date-change crisis, Tony Blair will announce today. ... The Prime Minister, who has tabled the millennium bug as an item for discussion by the coming meeting of the G8 countries in Birmingham, is to attend a conference on the problem in London this morning. ... Mr Blair says in today's Independent that although the Government is leading the way in raising awareness, only 37 out of 128 countries borrowing from the World Bank said they were aware of the problem and only six had set up awareness- raising campaign organisations like Britain's Action 2000. ... But, while awareness of the problem was complete in the UK, a quarter of companies had not started taking action. ... "We will offer a œ1,300 time- limited grant for people to train in how to look for and solve the year 2000 problem," he says. ... "If we get the response from business we are looking for, there will be an army of 20,000 'bug busters' fully trained between now and next April." Mr Blair says in today's Independent that John Prescott, deputy Prime Minister, and Sir Jeremy Beecham, chairman of the Local Government Association, are writing to every local authority leader and chief executive "asking them to set up their own task forces to raise awareness in their local areas and to co-ordinate action between the private and public sector locally". See Tony Blair's article in our columnists section. independent.co.uk