Arab, foreign experts open meeting on Y2K bug
Regional, Economics, 11/2/1999

Arab and foreign experts on Monday opened a meeting to present emergency plans to face up the year 2000 bug's (Y2K) effects in North Africa and the Middle East.

Delegates will focus on the Y2K effects in the sectors of health and chemical industry.

They will establish a regional cooperation network to avoid side-effects of the change in the critical fields of oil and gas and health.

January 1, 2000 risks to be a dark Saturday, as the world will wake up to computer problems that will spare no sector of activity except in the countries that would have levelled up their artificial intelligence.

Millions of computers --some of which are central to running financial markets, air-traffic control systems and even elevators in office buildings-- do not distinguish between the year 1900 and the year 2000 because an old programming practice expressed years in two digits.

As the year 2000 gets closer, this "bug" is attracting high-level attention in both government offices and corporate boardrooms around the world.

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