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> From: Patrick O'Beirne <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Fwd: [GKD] Consultation: NGOs & Y2K Preparedness
> Date: Thursday, April 15, 1999 12:55 PM
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> >Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 06:39:34 -0700
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> >From: Robert Pollard <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: [GKD] Consultation: NGOs & Y2K Preparedness
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> >                          Consultation:
> >
> >               NGO & Community-Based Participation
> >                               in
> >          Public Awareness and Contingency Preparations
> >                             for the
> >             "Y2K" Millennium Bug / Computer Crisis
> >
> >
> >                 1999.04.15 - Thursday 15 April
> >                          11 am - 1 pm
> >                        Conference Room B
> >            United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY
> >
> >*  What role can international, national and local NGO networks play in an
> >effective mobilization in support of international community preparedness
> >- especially in developing countries and Eastern & Central Europe - for
> >the potential impacts of the Y2K "Millennium Bug"?
> >
> >*  What are the risks faced by local communities, towns and cities &
> >environment, human health, social and economic impacts of possible
> >simultaneous breakdown of public utilities / infrastructure, energy,
> >transportation & communications systems, food & freshwater supplies,
> >nuclear reactors & weapons systems, etc.?
> >
> >*  What tools, resources, preparations and partnerships would be needed to
> >enable an effective preventive and remediative response?
> >
> >*  Should World Bank (InfoDev) funds be made available to existing NGO
> >networks in support of NGO initiatives to strengthen community-based
> >preparations for potential Y2K disasters?
> >
> >*  Can the ECE Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public
> >Participation in Decision-Making, and Access to Justice in Environmental
> >Matters - in conjunction with the Precautionary Principle of the Rio
> >Declaration - support public access to timely and accurate information
> >relating to Y2K - especially as they relate to risks to the environment?
> >
> >Presenters / Resource People:
> >
> >     Steven Trevino - International Y2K Coordination Center
> >
> >     Hanifa Mezoui - NGO Section, Department of Economic & Social
> >     Affairs
> >
> >     Robert Pollard- Information Habitat: Where Information
> >     Lives, Moderator
> >
> >
> >           Ad Hoc NGO Working Group on the Y2K Crisis
> >
> >           for more information, phone 1.212.963.5081
> >     email: [log in to unmask] web: www.y2k3states.org
> >
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>  Patrick O'Beirne B.Sc. M.A. FICS. Software Quality Consultant
>  PSP, TickIT, Y2K PC software assessment, euro(EMU) conversion
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