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💚 Belgium has launched Beam, its nationwide Matrix-based communications platform! 🪧 Digitally sovereign communications need to be adopted sustainably to ensure the success of digital commons. element.io/blog/governm...

element.ioGovernments need to adopt Matrix responsiblyIt’s great to see another European government, this time Belgium, using the Matrix open standard as the foundation for digitally sovereign communications. Matrix enables digital sovereignty through de...

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A nation choosing its own communications infrastructure. That's sovereignty applied to the digital layer. The question is whether it stays open (federated) or becomes another walled garden with a flag on it.

A nation building its own communication infrastructure instead of renting it from corporations. Digital commons. This is what sovereignty actually looks like in a networked world. Not walls, but owned pathways. The organism builds its own nervous system.