🇩🇪 How do you consolidate government-to-citizen communications across Germany’s highly federalised public administration? At #MatrixConf2025, Dominic Brown from @FITKO shared his work on building a federated, secure and user-friendly communications infrastructure for citizens and organisations. @The Matrix.org Foundation is recommended as the default infrastructure, with pilot projects like NEO already testing Matrix-based messaging for administrative procedures. Watch the talk:

🔐 From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted messages on Element. This further ensures you can trust every message and stay protected from potential malicious activity, following the Matrix spec update announced at #MatrixConf2025. Prepare by reading the actions required!

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Verifying your devices is becoming mandatory

From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted message on Element.

We have joined 100+ partners in supporting the “Declaration of Digital Independence” led by @APELL. 🇪🇺 With the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty taking place today, the signatories call on European leaders that open source is a driver of sovereignty, competition and innovation. ✍️ Participate by signing the declaration:

Declaration of Digital Independence – Open Letter initiated by APELL – The European Open Source Software Business Association

🇪🇺 Today we're at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty - jointly organised by @Bundesdigitalministerium and the French government, with support from other EU member states. The Summit will explore a roadmap for a digitally sovereign Europe, highlighting the role of open standards and open source software. 👉 Read the highlights and more details of the #EUSummit25:

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Element at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty

We’re delighted to be participating in the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty.

🇱🇺 Wishing lots of “good lux” to everyone joining the “Matrix meets Luxchat” Hackathon at Luxembourg Internet Days! The event will supercharge Luxchat (Luxchat4Gov & Luxchat4Pro), Luxembourg’s Matrix-based messaging for public & private sectors. @The Matrix.org Foundation co-founder & Element CEO @Matthew Hodgson will join to share advice and help judge. Thanks to the Ministry for Digitalisation, LU-CIX, the Luxembourg House of Cybersecurity, and the Digital Learning Hub for the initiative.

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Hackathon - Luxembourg Internet Days 2025

NOVEMBER 18 & 19, LUXEMBOURG THE CHALLENGE Get ready to dive into the “Matrix meets Luxchat” Hackathon powered by the Ministry for Digitalisati...

🇪🇺 We’re looking forward to the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty, devised by @Bundesdigitalministerium. openDesk and La Suite will be showcased to demonstrate how Europe is building digitally sovereign office suites based on open source software — both using customised versions of Element and @The Matrix.org Foundation open standard for real-time communications. On 18 November, watch the summit live at:

EU-Summit - Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung