Comment Decentralized communications network Matrix is hoping to be the beneficiary as European public and private sector organizations ponder alternatives to the messaging status quo.

During Matrix's recent Strasbourg conference, more than two dozen public sector entities were noted to have tried (or were currently using) the technology. The vast majority were European, highlighting worries on the continent about dependency on closed and potentially insecure messaging platforms.

The French state is already running Matrix as the backbone of its secure instant messaging service. Tchap is used by more than 600,000 public officials, and the country's Interministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) announced at the conference it was signing up as a Silver member of the Matrix.org Foundation, wh

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