Element is a combined secure messenger and collaboration tool. It scales to support millions of users for nationwide collaboration. Bringing government, public sector organisations, businesses and citizens together in real time.
Discover how the French Government introduced federated, digital sovereign messaging and collaboration for more than 300,000 French civil servants.
Read case studyElement and the open standard Matrix protocol enable government-wide, national scale federated networks. Connect the entire public sector, its partner organisations and citizens.
Federated networks for millions.
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"Element gives us messaging and collaboration that is secure, and contains the right feature set for 300,000 public administration users. Matrix is technically advanced, proven and mature."
— Jérôme Ploquin, DINUM
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Germany's Bundeswehr use Element for secure communications
DINUM
Element partners with the French government to support 300K users.
TDEM
Secure communications for disaster recovery situations.
Dataport
Large scale public office and education communications for Schleswig-Holstein.
Digital sovereignty
End-to-end encrypted
Open standard for federated networks
On-premise or cloud
Open source
With the TI-Messenger, gematik is creating a nationwide decentralised private communication network - based on Matrix - to support potentially more than 150,000 healthcare organisations within Germany’s national healthcare system.
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Every participating organisation is able to self-host, ensuring it has complete ownership and control of its data.
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Default end-to-end encryption ensures communication stays private between validated participants, protecting sensitive data as it travels through joined up government and frontline services.
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Element interoperates with all other Matrix-based services and can be bridged into traditional apps such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp.
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Element and Matrix are committed to open source. Nationwide deployments can build on licence-free software, with the freedom to extend, customise and contribute.
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Led by the team that developed the Matrix open standard, Element Consulting provides strategic and technical planning for federated global, regional and national Matrix-based platforms.
Matrix is an open network for secure, decentralised communication, connecting 42M+ users over 80K+ deployments.
Governed by The Matrix.org Foundation, the Matrix protocol is an open standard with open source implementations, supporting a vibrant developer ecosystem. Element was founded by the team behind Matrix as a way to bring it to the mainstream.
Element is incredibly proud to build in the open, sharing almost all of our own code with everyone.
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