Rick Lewis, VP, Element Matrix Services says:
“Element is also heavily used in government, where many teams are simply not allowed to use a centralised service such as MS Teams or Slack that sees data transferred to commercial and often foreign-based servers.
Many organisations have already made the leap to digital sovereign, open standard and end-to-end encrypted collaboration. But until all collaboration and messaging apps share an open standard, the likes of Microsoft Teams, Slack and Signal remain walled gardens.”
Knowledgeable computer professionals like Jordan Bancino agree: