India to head UN committee on Y2K compliance

["Irfan Khan" <KhanIA@super.net.pk>]

India to head UN committee on Y2K compliance 

New Delhi 
11 JULY 

INDIA has been selected to head a four-member group on embedded 
systems under the United Nations that would come out with a report by 
the end of this month, suggesting appropriate methods to tackle Y2K 
problems in embedded systems in Asian nations. 

Embedded systems, which provide a cost-effective way of controlling 
support systems, use microprocessor chips that carry programmed 
instructions to control or monitor equipment. 

The group was set up by the UN working group on informatics at the UN 
National Y2K Coordinators' Conference at New York last month, S 
Ramakrishnan, head of Y2K cell of the department of electronics (DoE) 
who represented India at the conference, said. The group, which 
includes Japan, Korea and Philippines, was the result of 
deleberations at the Asian regional forum meeting, he said, adding 
the report would also help countries from other continents. - PTI 

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