Across the world, IBM is striving to bring a new level of intelligence to how our planet works – how every person, business, organisation, government, natural system and man-made system interacts. We believe each interaction represents a chance to do something better, more efficiently, more productively. More importantly, if we make every system smarter, we have a chance to open up new possibilities for progress.
To understand what that means for Australia, on 30 April 2009, 40 of the nation’s senior public and private sector leaders met at the Australia’s Leadership Forum to consider the systemic issues hampering Australia’s productivity – telecommunications, transport, energy, water and health – and the potential to address these issues by building intelligence into our infrastructure.
To build a sustainable economic future and in turn sustainable companies, Australia must a make swift, concerted and collaborative effort to form and work towards a vision for smarter digital infrastructure. To help clarify that purpose, Towards a Smarter Economy: A roadmap to making it happen summarises the discussions at the Forum, presents the information shared with its delegates and proposes a roadmap for developing Australia’s intelligent infrastructure over the next ten years.
