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Vienna, September 01. 1999

Federal Government Intensifies Y2K Information Drive - "Publico" PR Agency Commissioned

The Austrian Federal Government is stepping up its efforts to help with potential Y2K computer problems. In addition to the government hot line (0800/222.666), the Y2K information homepage on the Internet (www.austria.gv.at) and a number of special events, an information campaign will be launched in mid-September concentrating on the following subjects.

The Federal Government will inform the public about Y2K solutions already accomplished in the federal administration and in major infrastructural sectors. The Federal Government will also be acting as a "moderator" to support publicity by Austrian business corporations. Finally, an incentive to address the problem is to be given to those firms which have not yet responded sufficiently to the Y2K problem.

The Government has commissioned Austria's biggest PR agency, "Publico", to be its partner in intensifying Y2K work. "Publico" was chosen in a tender procedure in which 12 agencies took part.

As in the Government's successful initiative to publicise the "euro", the Y2K campaign will rely on a "network of information partners". Many institutions and media are already performing first-rate information work. They started long ago to draw the business community's attention to possible Y2K snags. Most medium and big companies in Austria have long done their homework on Y2K. But some problems remain with small businesses. The Federal Government's information drive is intended to reinforce and complement the work done by institutions and the media.

Hence the Government's publicity work will be focussed on cooperation with the media and on a joint information drive with Austrian business and industry.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), September 08, 1999

Answers

We have a world wide problem being tackled poorly one country at a time.

-- Mike Lang (webflier@erols.com), September 08, 1999.

Miki--LOL. Yes, everything is local, you know. Isn't that what the federal government says?

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), September 08, 1999.

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