The digital economy of Western Australia - smart mining, oil, gas enterprises, railways, seaports, and formalized ontologies

Abstract

The article deals with issues related to the construction and development of the digital economy in one particular region. As an example, Australia is considered, the digital sector of which may become the largest in the country in the next five years. The digital revolution affects all areas of the Australian economy. Prior to this, the Australian economy was known as the world's leading mining industry, a food producer and a supplier of fuel and energy products. Today, according to statistics, Australia's leading mining and energy companies are already one step ahead of their colleagues in the economically successful implementation of digital technology. Naturally, in such successes of digital transformations, there are key components. One of them is a formalized ontology, the development of which in the world today is paid the most attention. In the article, on specific examples, the authors tried to show specific digital transformations in Australia and their moving hidden springs. The authors hope that the examples of development and thought about the driving springs of these transformations, chosen in consideration of the interests of the development of the Russian digital economy, can be interesting and useful for Russian enterprises that have started their digital transformations.