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The MHINGA system
Phase one text
Phase one graphic
Phase two text
Phase two graphic

At present, we are working on the previous stages of m2 project which is based on MHINGA system.

In many countries of Center and South America the word minga is used to define collective work where all neighbours work together without getting money, in a voluntary way, in order to benefit whole community.

With MHINGA system (Macroeconomics Human-to-Human Interface on the Net for a Global Approach), we pretend to develope an open source tool in order to many people, working together, can do something to understand how the money flows in the world.

m2 is advised by an economist, Rosa Garcia, and it's centred in to explain to unespecialist people how the international finantial system works and how determine the developing of the society.

We are developing a mapping system which translate information from a data base in order to offer a multimedia experience. The data base is build with some economic and social variables associated to different cells such as countries, transnational companies or institutions.

The user can do queries and get the information throw an interface where the cells are associated to different parameters such as color, shape, size, sound, position, etc.

This interface shows and plays pictures and sounds of the distribution of the richness and poorness in the world and it can be used by a wide range of people: students, teachers, activists and, of course, artists.

The project offers marcroeconomics information and a site where users can talk about their experiences and generate purposes and new ideas by theirselves, in a horizontal way.

Afterwards, the different cells of the data base are filled by the user with a hypothetical information and the content of each cell can change and modify the neighbour cells. The system looks like a cellular automat. Each user is associated to one cell, and only get a local point of view of the system.

As in the part one, the interface can translate the information in a many diferent visual and sound ways, so people can participate in this finantial experience looking for a pure artistic purpose.

Each cell has its own metabolism, with inputs and outputs connected to the rest of the system, and the user must take decisions and develop strategies from its parcial point of view. The survival, growing and influence of one cell depends of the decisions of the its user.

The m2 world not pretends to be a simulator, but as a complex system it will show emergent properties and we hope to get some behaviours close to the real finantial system. Our aim is offer an experience wich help to the people to discuss about the rules of the real world.