Message-ID: <C1842CDCFD61D211ABDC00E02922F7C1128AB8@mail.geoanalytics.com> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 07:40:01 -0500 From: Jim Cory <mailto:Coryj@GEOANALYTICS.COM> Subject: Re: Y2k in Africa To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Dear Reid,I believe you are justified in your fears about the ability of developing countries to bring their computers into Y2K compliance withing the required timeline. I am also concerned that Y2K failures in these countries will have wide ranging affects.
Your suggestion that organizations in those countries should run critical routines in advance and that people should prepare alternative sources of water and power are valid and necessary. It is also important, however, that Y2K remediation work be continued at whatever rate is possible. Information technology is an important tool for development and we should not abandon all maintenance efforts and return to the cave. Y2K is just another one of those underfunded development initiatives that must be pushed along as time and money permit.
Jim Cory GIS Programmer Analyst Geo Analytics, Inc. 1716 Fordem Ave Madison, Wi 53704-4604 608-241-7100 mailto:coryj@geoanalytics.com http://www.geoanalytics.com