If you can read the title (that’s “electronic data exchange” if you can’t), then you might be interested in this post by my colleague Gerry Beuchelt. He has found an online petition that German citizens can sign to encourage their government to select and use open document standards (which pretty much nets out to the OpenDocument standard).
Tangled musings on identity, privacy, trust, and suchlike
An update: I also ran across a report by the European Commission, please see for details here.