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Salesforce has weighed into the debate in the wake of last week’s federal budget, applauding the “radical” departure from past neglect of startups, but highly critical of Australia’s short-term reform compared to the “long game” approach on startups by our Asian neighbours.

You’d think Australia already has a digitally enabled economy, but the Internet Society is nevertheless applauding Government and Opposition moves to foster more of it.

Government support for startups and initiatives to re-focus the national training system in this year’s budget has drawn a tick of approval from the Australian Computer Society (ACS), but it wants much more to be done to meet the demands of a ‘fast-paced’ digital economy.