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Communicate on your terms.
Sovereign, interoperable and secure communications, built on the Matrix open standard.
Own your data .
Choose your hosting .
Secure your comms .
Be in your element.
We built Element on the Matrix open standard to give users the independence to control and manage their communications.
Sovereignty .
Ownership .
Control .
Digital sovereignty
Free from proprietary, vendor-locked platforms.
Element gives each and every government department the ability to run and control their own digitally sovereign, interoperable and secure communications solution.
“We are working together towards one goal: European digital sovereignty.”
Friedrich Merz, Chancellor of Germany
Decentralisation puts you in control
Built on the decentralised Matrix open standard, to free you from vendor-locked systems.
Digital commons
Sovereign cross-border collaboration.
Element sits at the heart of Europe’s digitally sovereign and open source office productivity suites.
Digital sovereignty means not being reliant on a specific vendor. That’s why we build on the interoperable Matrix open standard, and support a competitive ecosystem.
" Digital sovereignty, i.e. control, design and interchangeability in digital systems, cannot be achieved without open source software. "
Open standard interoperability
Communicate between organisations and nations.
Make decisions faster and work more efficiently across governments and public institutions.
Connectivity between organisations
Matrix offers vendor agnostic federation to enable different solutions from different vendors to work together. Think of the Matrix open standard as SMTP for real time communications.
Independence from siloed systems
The transparency of open source software, and building on the interoperable Matrix open standard means Element’s customers are never vendor-locked.
“Digital sovereignty means having choices, so no single technology and provider become a dependency that can be used against our interests. It is always good to have choices in order to avoid dependencies.”
Karsten Wildberger, federal minister for Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung
Sovereign collaboration
Alternative to Microsoft Teams.
Replace vendor-locked productivity suites with self-hosted workplace collaboration for desktop and mobile.
Based on the Matrix open standard, protect sensitive information while enabling real-time communication with partner organisations.
Sovereign messenger
WhatsApp and Signal replacement.
A consumer-style messaging app to ease adoption and encourage use.
End-to-end encrypted messaging and calls, connected to workplace systems and built for public sector compliance requirements.
Air-gapped networks
Collaboration in isolation.
Element offers install and support for air-gapped , isolated and high-side instances with no internet connectivity needed.
Secure by design
Resilient communications.
Element utilises the decentralised Matrix open standard to create a resilient, zero trust, communications network.
With no central point of failure, Element protects against global outages and ensures high availability through the use of redundant servers.
Element also supports air-gapped and low bandwidth communications, including Mesh and satellite connectivity.
The professionalised Matrix-based server that organisations can use to host any Matrix-based solution. Deploy sovereign, interoperable and secure real time communications at scale.
Creators of Matrix.
Element is led by the creators of Matrix, the decentralised open standard for secure and sovereign real time communication.
Created by the Element team in 2014.
Governed by The Matrix.org Foundation.
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Be in your element.
Sovereign, interoperable and secure communications, built on the Matrix open standard.