networkException
Hi! I'm networkException (she/they) and have been around as such for quite a few years in the Matrix Community and everywhere else online.
By day, I'm an IT architect at FITKO, a German government agency facilitating cooperation on IT topics between the federal government, member states and various other federal actors. Here I'm looking at Matrix as a tooling to achieve various goals like sovereignty, sustainability and security- and privacy by design within the ever evolving, ever more complicated IT landscape surrounding the German government.
At night I'm more of a developer, system administrator as well as train-, privacy- and security nerd and open source linux distribution and browser maintainer. I'm active in various communities, including maintaining the ungoogled-chromium browser patchset, improving open data for public transit or simply hosting (currently) 4 Synapses (and counting!) for fun and no profit
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With Beyond Instant Messaging: Matrix in the Public Sector last year, we presented FITKO and the German Federal Ministry of the Interior joining efforts to pilot a Matrix-based next-generation communication infrastructure for digital government services, with the goal to showcase end-to-end encryption, great usability and machine-readable communication between citizens and public authorities.
Lets take another look at the project, what we have done since and what else there is to come for reaching the German Government via Matrix