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Mit'a (Quechua pronunciation: [ˈmɪˌtʼa]) [1] [2] was a system mandatory labor service in the Inca Empire, as well as in Spain's empire in the Americas. [3] Its close relative, the regionally mandatory Minka is still in use in Quechua communities today and known as faena in Spanish.
MITA is also the source of the DICOM [2] standard and the XR series [3] of medical imaging and radiation dose standards: . XR 26-2012 Access Controls for Computer Tomography: Identification, Interlocks, and Logs
In 1572, in order to provide sufficient labor to accommodate the expansion of silver mining to lower-grade ores, Viceroy Francisco Toledo organized an Indian draft labor system, the mita. [34] This system of forced labor was based on the mit'a, a rotating, reciprocal labor obligation instituted in pre-Hispanic Andean society. Under this system ...
The Inca state was not the utopia imagined by Europeans however, as most redistributed products were "consumed by the system of reciprocity, by which the state was under constant obligation to renew great “gifts” to the various ethnic lords, military chiefs, the huacas. […] To meet these obligations, a system of state storehouses was built".
The mitma system was effective because instead of trying to invent new governments, they just shuffled about existing ethnic groups. [ 9 ] The Inca kept great tabs on their populace in order to ensure that challenges to their authority did not occur.
They instead used the mita for the support of the empire. The Inca diet consisted primarily of fish and vegetables, supplemented less frequently with the meat of cuyes (guinea pigs) and camelids. In addition, they hunted various animals for meat, skins and feathers. Maize was malted and used to make chicha, a fermented alcoholic beverage.
Stimulator of interferon genes (STING), also known as transmembrane protein 173 (TMEM173) and MPYS/MITA/ERIS is a protein that in humans is encoded by the STING1 gene. [ 5 ] STING plays an important role in innate immunity .
In 2013, MITA drew up a national strategy for the digital economy. [4] [5] On 24 March 2014, the Digital Malta – the National Digital Strategy for 2014-2020 was launched by the Prime Minister Hon Dr. Joseph Muscat. [6] Digital Malta puts forward a set of guiding principles and policy actions of how ICT can be used for socio-economic development.