Shareholders Advisory: Paradigm Project Manager Addresses New York City Council Committee Hearings On World Trade Center Disaster Recovery Project

    TORONTO--May 9, 2002--Yoram Shalmon, World Trade Center Disaster Recovery Project Manager for Paradigm Advanced Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB:PRAV), addressed a special hearing held by New York City Council's Select Committee on Technology in Government on May 6th regarding the "Technology Lessons Learned from New York City Response to 9/11". Mr. Shalmon explained fully the important contribution Paradigm's Tracking technology made to the debris removal portion of the recovery project.
    Paradigm's Tracking Devices were installed on over 200 trucks contracted by the city to remove material from Ground Zero. Paradigm's state of the art Tracker Server provided real time information to the monitoring team, such as: vehicle location, speed, route selected, estimated arrival time at dump site, arrival time at ground zero, etc. Paradigm's Tracker technology was selected because of its accuracy, robustness, portability, immediate deployment capability, and cost effectiveness.
    The company's Tracker technology has been credited with making a significant contribution to the effective management of the truck fleet, the accelerated completion schedule as well as the overall project cost reduction. Some of Mr. Shalmon's comments were reported in the May 7th edition of the New York Times. A full text of Mr. Shalmon's remarks will be posted on the company's website at www.powerloc.com. The City of New York will be posting further information on their website.

    ABOUT PARADIGM ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

    Paradigm Advanced Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB:PRAV) (www.powerloc.com) provides a full range of wireless location tracking technology solutions to service providers and end users in the telematics, GPS, M-Business, L-solutions and CRM/ERP markets. Paradigm's servers, software and devices locate, track, navigate, communicate with and manage people, vehicles and other assets. Paradigm's technology was chosen to help track recovery vehicles at the World Trade Center disaster recovery site. "Destinator(TM)" (www.destinator1.com) won the prestigious People's Choice Award of America's Pocket PC Magazine in 2001 and a similar award in Germany this year. Destinator(TM) technology provides a breakthrough experience in vehicular navigation and communication. Paradigm owns the exclusive licensing rights to a broad based wireless location patent (U.S. Patent no. B1 5,043,736) covering the apparatus and method of transmitting position information from satellite navigational signals (such as GPS) over cellular systems. For further information on Paradigm and its PowerLOC division, visit www.powerloc.com or call (905) 764-3701.

    Paradigm is also listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange - symbol - PG8.

    This press release contains forward-looking statements that, if not verifiable historical fact, may be viewed as forward-looking statements that could predict future events or outcomes with respect to Paradigm Advanced Technologies, Inc., and its business. The predictions embodied in these statements will involve risks and uncertainties and accordingly, Paradigm's actual results may differ significantly from the results discussed or implied in such forward-looking statements.