[en] ARGO-YBJ, a Chinese-Italian collaboration, is going to finish the first step of the installation of this cosmic ray telescope consisting in a single layer of RPCs, placed at 4300 m, elevation, in Tibet. The detector will provide a detailed space-time picture of the showers front, initiated by primaries of energies in the range 10 GeV-500 TeV. The data taking will start at the beginning of 2002 with a fraction of the detector installed, will be upgraded two times, being completed at the end of 2003. The authors briefly describe the data flow, the trigger organization, the three operational steps in data taking and the computing model to process the data. The need of remote monitoring of the experiment will be touched upon. The processing power for the raw data reconstruction and for the Monte Carlo simulation is reported