Sadly Australia does not have the vision from the government, nor the large innovative and globally leading IT companies to be a creator of new vision and IT outcomes. The country can have small successes, but there is a severe lack of large capabilities.
SAP, Siemens hope to benefit from German Web 3.0 project
SAP and Siemens hope to benefit from a government-funded program to develop new semantic Web technologies.
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