--- title: We're interoperable so you can be digitally sovereign description: "Resilient communications study: Does your country own its ability to communicate? Or does your vendor?" --- [![element-black-logo](https://try.element.io/hubfs/element-black-logo.svg)](https://element.io) Resilient communications study # Does your country own its ability to communicate? *Or does your vendor?*  Most governments don't know the answer - until a vendor fails, withdraws its service or its solution goes end of life. Ensuring resilience means never being dependent on a single vendor. [Download study](https://try.element.io/resilient-communications-study#hs_cos_wrapper_widget_1692933401870) ![Does your country own its ability to communicate?](https://try.element.io/hs-fs/hubfs/Interoperable-campaign-cover.png?width=670&height=922&name=Interoperable-campaign-cover.png)   ##### Sovereignty and resilience What the study covers An overview of what genuine sovereignty for real time communications looks like, and a checklist to assess where your organisation stands today.  - The real-world outages and geopolitical events that have exposed the fragility of centralised communications - The three structural pillars of genuine organisational autonomy - A digital resilience checklist: can you answer yes to every question? [Download study](https://try.element.io/resilient-communications-study#hs_cos_wrapper_widget_1692933401870) "Digital sovereignty means having choices, so no single technology and provider becomes a dependency that can be used against our interests." Karsten Wildberger Federal Minister for Digital, Germany Sovereignty needs an interoperable open standard. That standard exists today. It's called Matrix, and it's already deployed by more than 25 governments.  ![Screenshot 2026-06-24 at 14.10.50](https://try.element.io/hubfs/Screenshot%202026-06-24%20at%2014.10.50.png "Screenshot 2026-06-24 at 14.10.50") ### Download study Copyright ©2026 Element. All Rights Reserved. Copyright ©2026 Element. All Rights Reserved.