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El Hilo que Persiste

Infrastructure serves.
People decide.

That is the commitment behind the programme: to investigate and build without displacing the authority of the people who live with the consequences.

A technical problem.
A human responsibility.

El Hilo que Persiste is a research programme that brings together work from LAAD at UNSAAC and Higher Self Forge Limited on communication, records and human control in imperfect conditions, with a field record from Pacchanta in the Ausangate corridor. [2]

Engineering asks what a system can do and how to test it. Community listening asks what is needed, who can decide and what changes when the system enters a place. Neither set of questions replaces the other.

The July 2026 demonstration brought together students from Electronic Engineering, Computer and Systems Engineering, and Anthropology. Their observations are part of the programme’s evidence, not a decorative addition to it.

Explore the field team’s record

02 / The principles

Control should not
exist only on paper.

Authority

Deciding includes
being able to stop.

Technical decisions do not replace a community’s legitimate procedures. The programme’s framework places decisions about the use, continuation and alteration of infrastructure with the community.

Custody

Records have a context
and people responsible for them.

Information produced in a place does not automatically become a resource for third parties. Its custody and uses need to be agreed, not assumed.

Evidence

What failed
counts too.

A negative result can change a design decision. The field report retains difficulties with access, legibility, sound and time, alongside the message that arrived.

Responsibility

Do not create
false reassurance.

A prototype must not lead anyone to depend on a service that has not been validated. Communicating limitations is part of building responsibly.

These are principles and commitments, not certification that all proposed controls have been implemented. This website does not substitute for specific community agreements. Documentary basis ↗

03 / Contributions

People, disciplines
and responsibilities.

These are the programme’s public roles. Each contribution is recognised by the work actually done, not as appointments to a future study.

Academic coordination

Dr. Hans Harley
Ccacyahuillca Béjar

Coordinates the programme’s academic work from LAAD at UNSAAC. Connects the programme’s work with its academic and educational setting.

Community and institutional relations

Orietta Trebejo

She contributes to the programme’s work with communities and institutions. The field report records her support for the coordination in Pacchanta and the relationship with the community.

Collaborating technical research

David Andrew
Bentley

Collaborating Technical Researcher, Higher Self Forge Limited. Author of documents in the published line and builder of the prototype described in the report. His contribution is technical and intellectual, as well as organisational.

The report acknowledges students, academics and institutions. An acknowledgement does not mean they have validated the system.

Pacchanta

Listening is not
asking for approval at the end.

The report proposes returning to review the design, locations and rules of use with the community. That stage and its agreements need their own documentation; they are not presented here as already completed.

What the report leaves open

There is more than
one way into the work.

Research, learning, community experience or institutional coordination.

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