Digital sovereignty
Extending Jitsi Meet for the Swiss Federal Supreme Court
A self-hosted conferencing integration that connected Jitsi Meet with conventional telephone participation while preserving institutional control of the service.
- Jitsi Meet
- Open source
- Telephony
- Public sector
- 2020
- Delivered during the first lockdown
- Swiss-hosted
- Institutional data control
- Jitsi + phone
- Integrated participation paths
The challenge
The constraint behind the work.
At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court needed a video-conferencing service for employees that aligned with its established open-source strategy.
Self-hosting in Switzerland supported the Court's requirement to retain control of institutional data. A further operational need was to let participants join a Jitsi conference using a conventional telephone, connecting a modern browser experience with an established communications channel.
Our role
Responsibility at the critical interfaces.
Doganbros, now Consensus Labs, collaborated with Adfinis and the Court's IT team on the required Jitsi extension.
Our engineering work used Jibri as a gateway between Jitsi Meet and telephone participants. The scope focused on interoperability inside a self-hosted environment rather than replacing the institution's existing communications model.
The work
What the engagement covered.
- 01 Translate the telephone-access requirement into a workable Jitsi integration path
- 02 Extend the Jibri-based media flow to bridge conference and telephone participation
- 03 Coordinate the contribution within the wider self-hosted service delivered by Adfinis
- 04 Respect the operational boundaries of an institution with strong data-control requirements
Outcome and status
A practical interoperability pattern
The resulting integration allowed the new Jitsi service to work with a familiar access method instead of forcing every participant into a single client path.
The project remains a useful example of digital sovereignty in practice. For public institutions, control, interoperability, maintainability, and clear operating responsibility matter as much as the visible conferencing feature.
Consensus Labs applies the same discipline to real-time media systems and open-source integrations where new software must fit established infrastructure and operating constraints.
Public evidence
Sources that document the work.
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