At present, we are working in the previous stages of MHINGA project. In many countries of Center and South America people use the word minga to define collective work where all neighbours work together without getting money, in a voluntary way, in order to develope any kind of task which benefits all their comunity. With MHINGA (Macroeconomic Human-to-Human Interface in the Net for a Global Approach), we pretend to develope a tool in order to many people, working together, can do something to understand how the money flow in the world. MHINGA is advised by an economist, Rosa Garcia, and it's centred in to explain to unespecialist people how works the international finantial system and how determine the developing of the society. The project is divided in two phases.

Phase One [see a graphic] consists in a mapping system which translate information from a data base in order to offer a multimedia experience. The data base is filled with many economic and social parameters associated to different cells such as countries, transnational companies or institutions. The user can do queries and get the information throw an adjustable interface where the cells are associated to different parameters such as color, shape, size, sound, position, etc. This interface shows and plays pictures and melodies of the distribution of the richness and poorness in the world and it can be used by a wide range of people: students, teachers, activism movements and, of course, artists.

In the Phase Two [see an interactive graphic], 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 a 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 hs 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 MHINGA 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.

The project offers a news group service where users can talk about their experiences and generate purposes and new ideas by theirselves, in a horizontal way. Our aim is offer an experience wich help to the people to discuss about the rules of their own real world.