Bangkok, Thailand

The millennium looks likely to insulate Thai IT professionals from the country's current economic crisis, but won't make it easy for the government to fix its own systems. A special Web site is to serve as a registration centre for unemployed IT people - there are estimated to be about 2,000 unemployed IT professionals in the country. There is also concern about the government's ability to fix the bug under the current economic conditions, because the problem requires high investment.