去中心化通讯平台 Matrix 已不再是当年的初创新贵。随着对主权与独立性的担忧升至新高度，该组织现已成为现状的有力挑战者。在该组织近期举办的马尔默大会上，与会人数同比增长 30%，现场氛围从“是的，这很重要”转变为“是的，我们正在推广部署”。
Decentralized messaging platform Matrix is no longer the upstart it once was. The organization is now a serious challenger to the status quo as concerns about sovereignty and independence reach new heights. At the organization's recent Malmo event, which grew attendance 30 percent year-on-year, the mood shifted from "yes, this is important" to "yes, we're rolling this out."
Matrix 是一项开放的通讯标准。它采用联邦制架构，因此无需担心中央枢纽或海外控制，可用于即时通讯、IP 语音等多种场景，也支持视频通话。该系统是 Microsoft Teams 等服务的替代方案。随着各国政府愈发警惕依赖美国科技巨头提供特朗普政府可随时切断的服务，Matrix 在公共部门日益受欢迎。
Matrix is an open standard for communication. It's a federated system, so there are no central hubs or overseas control to worry about, and it can be used for anything from messaging to voice over IP. Video is also supported. The system is an alternative to services such as Microsoft Teams. It has become popular in the public sector as governments grow increasingly wary of relying on US tech giants for services that the Trump administration could switch off at will.
然而，这种关注度的提升和后续的部署，也带来了 Matrix 尚未完全准备好的审视程度。一份关于欧洲委员会部署该技术后匿名反应的近期报告，让投入 Matrix 资金占大头的公司 Element 措手不及。一位马尔默大会与会者观察道：“起初他们[竞争对手]无视你，继而嘲笑你，继而与你对抗。”
However, that increased interest and subsequent roll-outs have brought a level of scrutiny Matrix was not fully prepared for. A recent report regarding anonymous reaction to a roll-out of the technology by the European Commission took Element - the company that puts the lion share of the money into Matrix - by surprise. One attendee at the Malmo conference observed, "First they [competitors] ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you."
Matrix 依然是一项开放标准，但其背后的开源基金会当然欢迎更多付费会员加入。“确实，我们获得的关注度比以往任何时候都高，”Element 首席执行官 Matthew Hodgson 表示，“我们看到 Matrix 正处于数字主权的关键路径上，几乎成了整个领域的代名词。”
Matrix remains an open standard, however, the open source foundation behind it would certainly welcome more paying members. "It's true that we're definitely getting more attention than we have had before," said Element CEO Matthew Hodgson. "We are seeing Matrix ending up on the critical path of digital sovereignty as almost the poster child of the whole thing.
“我不确定我们是否一定想成为典型代表，”他补充说，“我们当初加入可不是为了成为数字主权的特使，在各个政府之间奔走，但从经验来看，我们的确走到了这一步，是的，这将会吸引那些希望所有人继续留在传统大型科技系统中的人的注意。”
"I'm not sure that we necessarily do want to be the poster child," he added, "We didn't sign up to end up being ambassadors for digital sovereignty, roaming from government to government, but empirically that's where we've ended up, and yeah, that's going to attract attention from people who would rather everyone just kept in their traditional big tech systems."
在此之前，人们对国际合作伙伴的可靠性产生了担忧，从早期的项目（包括法国面向公共部门的 Tchap 即时通讯软件和德国的 BundesMessenger）到近期的用户（如瑞典公共部门）。事实上，在 Matrix 活动期间的一次令人难忘的演示中，消息在法国、瑞典和北约实体之间发送。
This comes amid worries about the reliability of international partners, from early projects including France's Tchap messenger for the public sector and Germany's BundesMessenger through to more recent users, such as the Swedish public sector. Indeed, in one memorable demonstration during the Matrix event, messages were sent between French, Swedish, and NATO entities.
“我怎么强调都不为过这种奇特之处，”霍奇森补充道，“各种国家军队每隔几天就打电话来，说：‘听着，我们也需要加入 Matrix，因为我们需要与这个国家对话，而他们在使用 Matrix，我们还需要与那个国家对话，而他们也在使用 Matrix。’”“这可能是为了国防，可能是为了国家安全，也可能只是为了医疗保健或教育、公共部门。但这是真实的。这就是为什么会出现狂热争抢的原因。”
"I cannot overstate the strangeness," Hodgson added, "of having various national militaries phoning up every couple of days, saying, 'Look, we need to get on board Matrix too because we need to talk to this country and they're using Matrix, and we need to talk to that country, and they're using Matrix.'" "It could be for defense, could be national security, could just be healthcare or education, public sector. But that is real.
这并不是说 Element 或 Matrix 试图打造一个比 Teams 更好的 Teams。
That is why there is a feeding frenzy." Not that Element or Matrix is trying to build a better Teams than Teams.
Element首席产品官帕特里克·阿尔伯茨（Patrick Alberts）表示：“这是一个数字主权通信解决方案，在许多方面大体上就像Teams一样运作，但它并不是要在这里成为更快保时捷……”至于据报道欧盟委员会（European Commission）对Element软件实施提出的投诉，欧盟委员会通信与协作服务部门负责人戴安娜·格奥尔格（Diana Gheorghe）对此进行了直接回应，并将匿名投诉描述为“我们在规模化推进的高调部署中所产生的自然摩擦”。
Patrick Alberts, Element's Chief Product Officer, said, "This is a digitally sovereign communication solution that, by and large, works like Teams in many aspects, but it's not set out to be the faster Porsche here..." As for the reported complaints from the European Commission over Element's software implementation, Diana Gheorghe, EC head of sector for Communication and Collaboration Services, addressed them directly and described the anonymous complaints as "the natural friction of [a] high-profile rollout that we have done at scale."
亚历山大·维尼德（Alexandru Vignide）作为欧盟委员会通信与协作服务部门的服务经理，正处于让主权通信工具发挥作用的最前沿，他指出了部署的速度——该部署于2025年第四季度从概念验证开始，并于2026年7月至9月间登陆笔记本电脑。欧盟委员会选择了申根云联盟（Schengen Cloud Alliance，其中包括OVHcloud）进行托管，据维尼德所说：“我们希望为用户提供熟悉的体验。”
Alexandru Vignide, EC service manager for Communication and Collaboration Services, who is very much at the pointy end of making the sovereign communication tools work, noted the speed of the rollout, which began with a proof of concept in Q4 2025, and hit laptops between July and September 2026. The EC chose the Schengen Cloud Alliance (which includes OVHcloud) for hosting and, according to Vignide, "We wanted to provide a familiar experience for users."
并非所有人都对正在推出的产品感到印象深刻，但重要的是要记住，变革可能会令人感到不安，而且这仍处于初期阶段。不过，这是一个重大的变革。
Not everyone is impressed with what is rolling out, but it's important to remember that change can be alarming, and this is still early days. It is, however, a significant one.
格奥尔格表示，除了增强弹性和业务连续性之外，“我们希望实现供应商多元化。我们还希望对平台拥有数据控制权和所有权。”
Gheorghe said that, as well as increasing resilience and business continuity, "We wanted to have vendor diversity. We also wanted to have data control and ownership of the platform."
例如，微软（Microsoft）会指出其系统的主权功能。在Matrix会议拉开帷幕之际，该公司宣布了各项新功能，包括在客户控制的平台上运行人工智能、数据服务和机密工作负载的更多选项，并强调了其针对青睐本地专业知识的客户的主权合作伙伴生态系统。
Microsoft, as an example, would point to the sovereign capabilities of its system. As the Matrix conference kicked off, it announced new capabilities, including additional options for running AI, data services, and confidential workloads on customer-controlled platforms, and highlighted its sovereign partner ecosystem for customers who prefer local expertise.
然而，微软（以及其他科技巨头）无法摆脱外界对于究竟谁最终控制数据以及各行政部门可能对数据做什么的担忧。
However, Microsoft (and other tech giants) cannot escape concerns about who ultimately controls the data and what administrations might do with it.
2025年，微软的一位代表曾令人印象深刻地证实，这家美国科技巨头“无法保证”法国客户的数据主权。然而，Matrix这个开源生态中也存在美中不足之处。该平台是开源的，就像许多开源项目一样，它需要资金。目前，Element承担了Matrix基金会的大部分资金。霍奇森（Hodgson）对此感到有些沮丧。“如果每一个在运营上依赖Matrix的政府都向基金会投入哪怕是最少的一笔资金，基金会就会有足够的资金来真正开始投资生态系统，而不必基本上依赖Element来买单。”
In 2025, a Microsoft representative memorably confirmed the US giant "cannot guarantee" data sovereignty to customers in France. There is, however, a fly in the Matrix ointment. The platform is open source and, like so many open source projects, requires funding. Right now, Element accounts for much of the Matrix Foundation's funding. Hodgson finds this a little frustrating. "If every government who is operationally dependent on Matrix put the smallest amount of money in the Foundation, the Foundation would have enough money to really start investing in the ecosystem and not be dependent on Element basically picking up the tab."
他承认过去一年情况有所改善，但表示：“对于一个开放标准来说，由Element这样的大玩家来实质上支撑局面，并非良好的治理。”这在开源世界中并不罕见，鉴于人们对通信主权的重视程度不断提高，这难免有些令人失望。阿尔伯茨（Alberts）评论道：“市场上有一种混乱的认识，认为这东西会自己凭空出现。”“不，它不会。它需要辛勤工作的人们。这些辛勤的工作人员需要得到报酬，为了支持未来的政府部署，这种报酬理想情况下也应该来自这些政府。其中一些政府做了很多工作，而且做得很好，这太棒了。”“但也有一些没有这样做。”
He acknowledged that things had improved in the last year, but said, "It's not good governance for an open standard to have one big player like Element effectively propping things up." This isn't uncommon in the open source world, and it's a little disappointing given the ever-increasing importance placed on sovereignty in communications. Alberts commented: "There is confusion in the market that the thing somehow creates itself. "No, it doesn't. It requires hardworking people. These hardworking people need to be paid, and that payment, in order to support government deployments going forward, ideally also comes from these governments. And some of them do a lot and do it in a great way, and that's amazing. "But some don't." ®