This was just forwarded to me by Andreas Dengel:
"A Malaysian government applied research agency wants the country to be recognized as the first Web 3.0 society in the world.
MIMOS is driving the semantic technology industry in the nation towards this goal."

Read on at computerworld.ko.ke:

http://www.computerworld.co.ke/articles/2008/10/17/malaysia-aims-be-first-web-30-society-world

"Semantic technology is driving the next generation of the Web, the semantic Web, a machine-readable Web of intelligent data and automated services that amplify the Web far beyond its current capabilities," said Dato' Wahab, at the agency's Semantics Symposium in Malaysia.