There are four spheres of responsibility susceptible to convey activities related to OLISTICA which are articulated to perform in a symbiotic manner within a framework of an organized participative process:

1. The project management, insured by Funredes.
2. The coordination & research group constituted by the skillful representatives of the project partners and associates working as a collaborative body.
3. The network of observers, to be constituted and organized at the first stage of the project.
4. The existing and evolving MISTICA virtual community, the base above which the project is built.

What remains as a potential source of contributors for the project is the area external to the project process that, directly or indirectly, can be interested in the project outcomes or services (other researchers or activists, policy makers, etc.).

OLISTICA’s planned activities, listed under the identified spheres of responsibility, are as follow (further description of the activities marked with an asterisk "*" is provided):

• The project management is responsible for handling efficiently the available resources in order to reach the objectives and maintaining the priority to the participatory process while establishing the necessary trade-off in order to insure the balance and quality of all the planned products. It is responsible, to perform the following tasks:
• Manage the project budget and agenda.
• Structure and organize the coordination & research group which is constituted from representatives of project partners and associates.
• Constitute, structure and organize the network of observers, with the support of the coordination & research group. This includes the definition of profiles and job descriptions, the contracting, the management and the evaluation of the individuals of the network.
• Keep managing the MISTICA virtual community¹ and conduce it towards participation to the OLISTICA process.
• (*) Manage the methodological research to facilitate on-line participative collective action.
• The coordination & research group perform the following activities:
• Insure the general coordination of the project and conduct the planned activities as well as the evaluation program.
• Facilitate the communication and information flow between the different participative bodies, implementing the methods provided by the facilitation research group.
• (*) Orient a collective debate to reach a consensus about the creation of an alternative vision of the role of ICT for social positive impact and development.
• (*) Create the Isticómetro² and propose the general framework for the observatory.
• (*) Animate the network of local observers.
• From the input of the network of observers and assessed by MISTICA’s virtual community, build and publish a list of indexes by country.
• Structure and document the products of OLISTICA and translate it into an ICT policies civil society guide that can reach out of MISTICA’s virtual community so it becomes available to a broad range of CSO representatives in the region that can make a good use of it as a tool to better affect ICT public policy in national, regional and global audiences.
• (*)Provide presentation and training materials to support the advocacy of the previous activity (not budgeted in this proposal).
• The network of observers is responsible of:
• Follow up on all ICT related actions and policies in each observer’s particular context (generally a country) and by making use of the tools created for that purpose by the coordination and the research groups, collect the information, assess it and report to MISTICA’s virtual community (through moderated mechanism).
• The MISTICA’s virtual community:
• Participate as a pluralistic body of experts that, maintaining the process-oriented philosophy throughout all stages of OLISTICA, gives credibility to the project and secures that the used tools and products are reflecting the values and perspectives of the people in the region.

OLISTICA has the duty to complete a base of knowledge about the social impacts of the ICT in LA&C. The results of this project extends far beyond the interests of the MISTICA’s virtual community. As such, other exchanges with the community outside OLISTICA include provisions to:

• provide associate players with material to sustain advocacy campaigns in favor of the use of ICT with a social vision.
• reach out directly to policy makers in the region in order to influence their decisions in the direction of positive social impact of ICT and development.

Details of more complex activities