Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:19:16 -0400 >
From: Raisa Urribardi Minardi, [email protected]>

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A NON-EDITED AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE SPANISH

This message replies to Mistica Coordination,(Article+competition, 23/03/2000)

Friends of Mistica:

Daniel's article about the "experience mistica" is of pleasing reading. Not only because it is deep and rich in reflections, but because the roll is very well counted.

A brief comment arises me when contrasting some paragraphs, in a reading to the flight and still in process. In the one separated context of the project Daniel points out the necessary balance to find between investigation and action, that which remits us to the so desired articulation search between production of knowledge and social change.

Rotating on the same topic, in the line strengths and active", he writes as preventing a critic:

> Some people will be able to make the reproach to the project Mistica of not arriving then to the communities of bases it is directed to professionals. This way to come closer to the problem can favor the part from the investigation to the detriment of the active part, however (...) the intellectual honesty should still force to recognize that the conditions are not mature to democratize this process.

The " antecedents ", however, express strong convictions about the necessity of maturing those conditions:

> Empowering is needed to the numerous groups, to help them to establish cooperative marks, to sensitize them to the importance of to measure the impacts of its actions and to strengthen them so that they can play its paper inside the restructuring in course of our societies. The actors that we look for to gather to work together (...) they need support (...) to undertake combined actions, to meditate collectively, and to experience with applications and novel methodologies that can open innovative roads in the social use of the technologies of information for the Latin American civil society.

I would dare to affirm that I eat product of that conviction, the project if it has contributed, although it is in minimum degree, to the maturation of those conditions, to the democratization of that process... but they are achievements that, still being before the curtain, they would be very difficult of specifying, to measure and to appraise. But not for intangible they are less important.

Greetings to all

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