Pocket 2000: Sectors

This page gives links to information relating to broad industry sectors.

• Telecomms
• Financial industry
• Healthcare
• Chemical manufacturing
• Power utilities
• Other

Telecomms

• Telco Year 2000 Forum an organisation of telecommunication companies focussed on the US (1 Nov 98)
• Telecommunications Managers Association (UK) is functioning as an industry pressure group. Their Telecomms Year 2000 page has links to other activity in the telecomms sector (27 Mar 98)
• Oftel oversees, and provides information about, progress in the UK Telecommunications sector (7 May 99)
• ETIS (European Telecommunications Informatics Services). ETIS has a project AD2000 to provide assistance to member companies (27 Mar 98)

Healthcare

• The World Health Organisation provides information and resources for healthcare at its Year 2000 Problem page, and reports progress to date (31 May 99)
• Rx2000 Year 2000 Special Interest Group - healthcare specific events, conferences and mailing list (14 May 98)
• Pharmaceutical Alliance for Y2K Readiness (4 Jan '00)
• UK Department of Health advice, information and support across the National Health Service (11 May 99)

Chemical manufacturing

• The Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety has established the Electronic Information Clearing House on Chemical Emergiencies to collate experience and inforamtion, and facilitate its flow (31 May 99)

Financial industry

• Global 2000 group - "an informal grouping of Banks, Securities Firms, and Insurance Companies whose aim is to identify and resource areas where co-ordinated initiatives will facilitate efforts by the global financial community to improve the readiness of global financial institutions to meet the challenges created by Year 2000 date change" with a specific concern for less developed countries (31 Oct 1998)
• World Bank report of 26 Jan 99 tabulates Y2K readiness in many countries, downloadable in PDF (24 Apr 99)
• In the US, the Financial Networks Readiness Consortium (FNRC) shares information among its members with a particular focus on finance-related telecomms networks (13 Jul 99)

Power Utilities

• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) - consortium of US power companies. The Year 2000 project has a strong focus on embedded control systems (1 Nov 98)

Others

• Institute of Grocery Distribution (UK): Initiative 2000 (6 Apr 98)

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