Y2K Useful Documents

By Utne Reader
Published on October 9, 2007

Web Citations to Important Articles, Reports, and Testimony:

‘Oversight Findings’ by the House Subcommittee on Government
Management,

Information & Technology, October 8, 1998

(http://www.house.gov/reform/gmit/y2k/index.htm)

Expert Testimony by the Gartner Group to the U.S. Senate Special
Committee on the

Year 2000 Technology Problem, October 7, 1998

(
http://gartner11.gartnerweb.com/public/static/aboutgg/pressrel/testimony1098.html
)

‘Year 2000 Problem Impacts and Actions,’ OECD Report, Sept. 30,
1998

(http://www.oecd.org/puma/gvrnance/it/y2k.htm)

‘Survey: The Millennium Bug,’ The Economist, September 19,
1998

(
http://www.economist.co.uk/editorial/freeforall/19-9-98survey/index_survey.html
)

(The Economist may remove this article from its site at some
point.)

‘Year 2000 Recession?’ by Dr. Edward Yardeni

(http://www.yardeni.com/y2kbook.html)

‘The Year 2000: Social Chaos or Social Transformation?’ by John L
Petersen,

Margaret Wheatley, and Myron Kellner-Rogers; and ‘The National and
Global

Implications of the Year 2000 Embedded Systems Crisis’ and ‘Draft
Summary of a

White Paper on National and Global Y2K Initiatives’ by Paula D.
Gordon, Ph.D.

(http://www.year2000.com/y2karchive.html)

‘Dealing with the Year 2000 Problem: What Local Government Should
be Doing

About the Year 2000 Problem’ and ‘Dealing with the Year 2000
Problem: Interna-tional

Compliant Community Initiative’ by Steve Davis

(
http://www.itpolicy.gsa.gov/mks/yr2000/y2kconf/papers.htm
)

‘Weekly Notes’ on Y2K by Douglass Carmichael and Mark
Frautschi

(http://www.tmn.com/~doug/)

United Way of Americaís Year 2000 Technical Guide

(http://www.unitedway.org/year2000/)

UTNE
UTNE
In-depth coverage of eye-opening issues that affect your life.