Digital Architecture for the Next Generation of Economic Metrics

The msb-mib-gross-mobility project proposes a simple but radical architecture for digital economies built around three pillars:

1. One Transaction Tax – a single, auditable tax on transactions that simplifies revenue collection.
2. One Universal Dividend – a recurring dividend funded by that tax, visible to citizens as a single line in their account.
3. One Mobility Indicators Layer (MSB/MIB) – two new indicators that look beyond GDP and UBI to measure how much people’s lives actually move, and how that mobility is experienced.

At the core of the project are the original indicators MSB (Gross Substantive Mobility) and MIB (Gross Internal Mobility):

• MSB estimates the lived mobility of an individual by weighting economic activity with satisfaction signals.
• MIB aggregates MSB at the territorial level, revealing where growth translates into real opportunities – and where it doesn’t.

Together, they help distinguish between:

• Virtuous growth – investment in education, health, preventive care and meaningful mobility.
• Toxic growth – activity driven by debt, congestion, addiction or pure survival spending.

What you’ll find in the repo

The GitHub repository includes: Visit the repo to explore the bilingual whitepaper, technical appendix, slides and video walkthroughs.

• A bilingual whitepaper (docs/msb-mib_whitepaper_v1_es_en.md) explaining the architecture and key ideas.
• PDF versions of the whitepaper in English and Spanish for easy reading and citation.
• A technical appendix (technical/msb-mib_appendix_tech_v1.md) with notation, formulas and Python-style pseudocode for MSB, MIB and the Universal Dividend.
• Slides and video walkthroughs that tell the story visually and explore practical use cases for policymakers and researchers.

Who is this for?

• People working on digital economy, UBI, wellbeing and “beyond-GDP” metrics.
• Policymakers and analysts who want to connect tax, redistribution and measurement in a single digital architecture.
• Researchers looking for a starting point to simulate, critique or extend the MSB/MIB framework.

Suggested citation

Robles, Juan (2025). MSB/MIB: a new indicator to complement GDP and UBI in digital economies. An integrated digital architecture: 1 tax, 1 dividend, 1 mobility indicators layer.
GitHub: https://github.com/mroblesg88/msb-mib-gross-mobility

Explore the repository, download the PDFs, watch the videos and decide for yourself whether MSB/MIB should be part of the next generation of economic dashboards.