Public sector
Ration Government Collaboration
A communication and collaboration platform that can satisfy residency, jurisdiction, security and procurement requirements without making the software worse to use.
The public sector constraint
Public-sector organisations need communication platforms that can meet residency, jurisdiction, security and procurement requirements. The usual outcome is a compromise in one direction or the other: a compliant system nobody wants to use, or a usable system that quietly moves official communication onto consumer apps.
Ration is designed so that the compliant deployment and the good product are the same deployment.
Deployed where jurisdiction requires
Ration can run in a supported regional environment or entirely within your own infrastructure. Ration Cloud runs from regional data centres, with Lagos live today and four further regions planned, on identical hardware owned and operated by Ration.
Where policy requires the hardware to stay in your hands, the on-premise edition deploys to your own estate or IaaS and your existing security controls apply to it. Same platform, same modules, sited where the rules say it has to sit.
- Regional deployment, on-premise, or partner-hosted
- Centralised administration with role-based access
- Immediate revocation and an audit trail over grants and shares
- Two-factor authentication and per-device app passwords as standard
Bought the way institutions actually buy
Procurement is often the harder half. Where local billing is available, Ration can be contracted and invoiced in the currency your organisation already uses — naira in Nigeria, cedi in Ghana, shillings in Kenya — which means simpler procurement, less foreign-exchange exposure and fewer surprises at renewal.
- Priced and billed in local currency where available
- Purchase orders and tender processes supported
- Local contracting and compliant invoicing where available
- Local-content credit where applicable under local rules
Already in service
Ration is deployed in state government and in defence. That matters more than a feature comparison: it means the migration, the accreditation conversation and the day-to-day support model have been exercised in institutional environments rather than described in a proposal.
Typical fit is ministries, departments and agencies, state institutions, defence organisations and other public bodies.
Questions we get asked
Can Ration run inside government infrastructure?
Yes. Ration can be deployed on your own on-premise infrastructure or in a supported regional environment, with the same modules as the hosted cloud.
Is Ration already used in the public sector?
Yes — Ration is already deployed in state government and defence.
Can we buy through a tender or purchase order?
Yes. Purchase orders and tender processes are supported, with local contracting and compliant invoicing where available.
Which currency are we billed in?
Ration is priced and billed in your local currency where available, which reduces foreign-exchange exposure across the contract term.
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Sectors
Sovereign collaboration
Your data stays on the continent that governs it — or inside your own building, if that is what the policy says.
Assurance
Secure messaging
Security that comes from how the platform is built and where it runs, rather than from a certificate on a marketing page.
Platform
Collaboration platform
Mail, chat, meetings, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes and forms in a single workspace — with one policy engine deciding access across all of them, and a choice of where the whole thing runs.
Platform
Enterprise collaboration
One workspace, one admin console and one policy engine across departments that have each been buying their own tools for years.
Not sure where Ration fits?
We will scope it with you before you commit to anything.