Global Implications of the Year 2000 Date Conversion Problem of Computers

A/RES/52/233View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 95 Macroeconomic policy questions and 95c Science and technology for development, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1998–2001

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/55/21

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2001	A/RES/55/21	Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers	353	26%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/114	Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers	748	53%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/86	Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers	659	75%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/233	Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers	548	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Computer Coding Computer Science Computer Software Guidelines International Cooperation

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Requests all Member States to attach a high priority to raising the level of awareness, both by ensuring that the private sector is fully engaged in addressing the year 2000 problem and by tackling the problem in those systems within their own control, and to consider, inter alia, the appointment of a nationwide coordinator for this purpose;

Appeals to all Member States to forge global cooperation to ensure a timely and effective response to the year 2000 challenge;

Calls upon Governments, public and private sector organizations and civil society to share locally, regionally and globally their experiences in addressing the year 2000 problem;

Requests the Secretary-General to take steps to ensure that all parts of the United Nations system take measures to ensure that their computers and equipment with embedded microprocessors are year 2000 compliant well before the target date by drawing up a plan of action for the United Nations system;

Calls upon the Economic and Social Council to prepare at its substantive session of 1998 guidelines on which Member States will be able to draw in addressing the diverse aspects of the year 2000 problem;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the United Nations system closely monitors actual and potential sources of funding to support the efforts of the developing countries and countries with economies in transition to address the year 2000 problem, and to facilitate the dissemination of relevant information on those funding possibilities to the Member States;

Also requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session on the steps taken within the United Nations system and with Member States to resolve this problem;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session an item entitled “Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers” and to complete its action under that agenda item before the deadline of 31 December 1999.

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