Nicolas Echaniz is President of AlterMundi. He has been involved in Community Networks for over a decade. Nicolas co-designed the multi-radio mesh network model that AlterMundi shares with communities willing to build their own communications infrastructure. He co-designed the LibreMesh firmware, the Librenet6 mesh tunel broker and the LibreMap mapping tool. Nicolas is project manager for the ongoing LibreRouter project which has been selected for funding by FRIDA (LANCIC) and FIRE (Africa). He co-founded the Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity (DC3). He is a regular speaker in connectivity-related events and he has authored numerous articles on Community Networks on printed as well as online media.