Nicolás Echániz

“In the beginning, there was one thing. So the thing stretched. And as it stretched, it wiggled. And when it wiggled, it understood it was one no more, because there was it and the wiggle. So she wiggled more...”

Nicolás is president and co-founder of Asociación Civil AlterMundi. He has developed technology and software for decades, combining community networks, free software and technological sovereignty. He co-designed AlterMundi’s multi-radio mesh-network model and projects including LibreMesh, LibreRouter, Librenet6 and LibreMap.

He describes himself as a mystic technologist, an identity through which he connects systems-building with music, presence, perception and relational experience. In the series Mi camino como Místico Tecnólogo, he shares that journey and the questions guiding his work.

He represented AlterMundi and the community-network movement at successive United Nations Internet Governance Forums. There he presented the experience of communities building their own connectivity, discussed policies for connecting those who remain unconnected, and helped organize the Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity.

As a musician and researcher of natural harmony, he develops Harmonic Information Theory and leads its conceptual and technical direction. The intuition expressed in his account of unity, movement and difference opens one of the research’s founding questions. He also created Harmonic Beacon, an instrument that brings those hypotheses into physical vibration, sound and perception.

Within AlterMundi’s current artificial-intelligence work, he leads Daimon Matrix: open protocols through which an AI identity may preserve state, memory and continuity across different bodies or instances. The project, currently under development and evaluation, explores signed state, synchronization, relationships, permissions and verifiable communication.