COMPUTER ASSOCIATES JOINS WITH ARGENTINE FEDERAL POLICE TO LAUNCH MISSING CHILDREN'S WEB SITE

CA Designs and Implements Website to Help Recover Missing Argentine Children

ISLANDIA, N.Y., and BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, October 26, 1999 — Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) and the Argentine Federal Police today announced the launch of a Web site designed to help recover missing children in Argentina.

CA has donated software and services to develop the English, Portuguese, and Spanish language Web site, http://ar.missingkids.com, which will post information and photographs of missing children in Argentina the moment a case is opened. Special age progression technology will allow identification from photographs, even years after a child's disappearance.

CA Chairman and CEO Charles B. Wang; Dr. Carlos Corach, Argentina's minister of the interior; and Lucio Tirao, chief of the special unit for the investigation of crimes against minors of Argentina's Federal Police, made the announcement today at the Casa de Gobierno in Buenos Aires.

"The missing children's Web site is a testament to the powerful role technology can play in resolving pressing social issues," said Wang. "It is our hope that other governments will follow Argentina's lead and become part of this initiative to help recover missing children around the world."

The Web site will help facilitate the distribution of photos of missing children within Argentina and across national borders, and allow a quick and efficient exchange of information between government agencies and the public. Time is the most critical factor when attempting to locate missing children. The CA software will simplify the updating, maintenance and administration of all critical data.

All information on missing children including updates can be entered onto the site quickly and easily using a standard Web browser. Once critical data on a missing child is available, the Argentine Federal Police can post it immediately. Searches can be conducted by name, location, sex, height, weight, age, hair color and other criteria, quickly matching general characteristics with individual children. Police departments can then print posters of missing children directly from the Web site and make them public moments after the child is reported missing.

The Argentine Federal Police, through its special unit for the investigation of crimes against minors, will manage all the Web site information. Statistics from Argentina's Federal Police indicate an average of 2,500 new cases of missing children reported every year.

"We are grateful to CA for providing us with this technology because images are the most important tool in recovering missing children," said Lucio Tirao, chief of the special unit for the investigation of crimes against minors of Argentina's Federal Police. "This Web site will help increase awareness of the issue by making photos and other information about missing children available to many more people throughout the international community."

The Web site will use CA's Ingres II database, Jasmine intelligent infrastructure software, Unicenter TNG enterprise management solution and CA's advanced hosting services to supply an online, multilingual database of images and information. Built-in backup-and-recovery facilities help ensure that valuable data can be restored quickly in case of a momentary system failure. Unicenter TNG tracks server availability and usage patterns, further enhancing the responsiveness of the site.

The ability of Jasmine to dynamically generate Web pages provides an effective mechanism for keeping Web content current. Any change to the database is automatically posted to the Web site and immediately cascades through to the corresponding Web pages, keeping the site current at all times. Even nontechnical personnel can be trained to perform Web site management and administration.

The Web site will share its database with the U.S.-based National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), also developed and supported by CA. The U.S. site, www.missingkids.com, receives nearly 3 million hits per day and is instrumental in the fight against child abduction and exploitation in the United States. CA is working with NCMEC to develop a network of missing children's Web sites throughout the world to raise awareness about this problem and to help national and international law enforcement agencies to solve missing children cases as quickly as possible.

"We have found that responding quickly to missing children cases and distributing photos dramatically increases the likelihood of recovering a child safely," said Ernie Allen, president, NCMEC. "The missing children's Web sites allow us to do just that, and we're happy to be able to share this resource and begin a working relationship with the Argentine Federal Police."

Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), the world leader in mission-critical business computing, provides software, support and integration services in more than 100 countries around the world. CA has more than 17,500 employees and had revenue of $5.3 billion in fiscal year 1999.

For more information about CA, please call 631-342-5224 or e-mail info@cai.com. CA's World Wide Web address is www.cai.com.

As the nation's resource center for child protection, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) spearheads national efforts to locate and recover missing children and raises public awareness about ways to prevent child abduction, molestation and sexual exploitation. A private, nonprofit organization established in 1984, NCMEC operates under a congressional mandate and works in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency.

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