EU: open standards and interoperable systems for e-government —

Having just come from Granada, for the ODF plugfest there put on by Cenatic, Opentia and others (see http://odf.cenatic.es/index.php/en/press/39-anuncio-odf-plugfest-granada-2010), the below link is quite useful. It's hard to underestimate the importance of open standards for e-government. But what is the alternative? Using closed standards that effectively impose a tax that benefits not the nation, and thus the people, but private companies? Seems wrong to me.

EU: open standards and interoperable systems for e-government —