The Government of United States of America have a mandate addressing Y2K issue. The President of United States have already set up a Y2K Council and other groups to battle this widespread disease. On his State of the Union Address (January 19, 1999) he said, "We need every State and local government, every business, large and small, to work with us to make sure that [the] Y2K computer bug will be remembered as the last headache of the 20th century, not the first crisis of the 21st." Congress has already appropriate 5 billion dollars in the emergence spending to debug this Y2K bug. Many laws have been passed arising the interest of many company and industry leaders.

Also Federal Government have passed legislation allowing the businesses to share Y2K information with each other without fearing for a lawsuit. Finally, federal government is looking into contingency plans to prepare for problems as they arise.

If you want to know more about what Federal Government have done, check out our links page under Federal Government.

Many states in U.S. have started to prepare for the Millennium Bug. Governor John Kitzhaber of Oregon has made it a state priority to implement Year 2000 solutions. Also the Oregon Legislature has assigned the Oregon Department of Administrative Services the task of developing and implementing a year 2000 statewide plan for state agencies, and has designated a budget to be spent on Year 2000 efforts.

For more information on State Government, check out our link page under State Government

Although state and federal have put to action many ways to debug the Y2K problem, the local government is still the most effective. Many service they provide will effect the citizens health and safty in many ways.

City of Portland and the Multnomah County have started their effort to search and destroy all Millennium Bug. Both have started a wide-range educational program to increase the citizens awareness of the new Y2K problem. For website of City of Portland or Multnomah County or any other county, please visit our link page under local government.

Businesses all over the world have begin to fix the Y2K problem. They are spending billions of dollars to fix their own problems, and to protect themselves legally at the same time.

Small to medium-sized businesses can be hit the hardest, since they lack the resource and the money to fully evaluate and bring the systems to compliance. However The Small Business Administration is playing an active role in helping these companies to address the issue.

The larger businesses have already started debugging their system. You can find information on these business through their web sites. However it is difficult to know for sure how prepared an organization really is.

There are dozens of different ways to be certified as "Y2K compliant". There is no one "official" Y2K certification, but the most commonly used are standards from the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the British Standards Institute.

This is a non-profit, technology research, development, and commercialization organization of the National League of Cities (NLC), the National Association of Counties (NACo) and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). In conjunction with these organizations, PTI has developed a program called Y2K & You, to coordinate the effort to reach compliance in local governments.

For links to these organization visite our links page