In the UK, Action 2000 runs a very active call center and web site, they run television, print and billboard advertising campaigns, and constantly work to keep the subject in the media. They also run a very vigorous campaign to keep small and medium enterprises in business next year and they've involved local chambers of commerce and business links. Australia and South Africa have both run advertising campaigns. The American Y2K community runs endless web sites and I've spoken at hundreds of American Y2K conferences over the past three years. He says there are lots of other ways the West can help Japan.
Western companies can pass knowledge on to their Japanese trading partners.
In addition, industries should be transferring knowledge among themselves. Most banks, certainly in the UK, have produced very professional Y2K guides for their customers in the form of booklets or videos. Their millennium compliance statements are comprehensive too. Japanese banks, which I'm particularly worried about, could learn a lot from them. Only one has checked their PCs - and even they haven't checked all of them.