„Look, what is actually KONEKUTO doing?“

Our association does on purpose, what a naturally created social network does randomly. Somebody asks you: Hey, I have an acquaintance and he/she needs – add whatever you can or like doing – what about trying to help him/her?
The world yesterday and today OR where are we?
Everybody is exceptional but today‘s society leads us to denial and adaptation and says that we should follow the crowd and shouldn’t stand out.
However, this isn’t natural and leads us to ask questions such as: why are we here, what is the meaning of our life, when we are just a meaningless freckle on the face of our planet. People are sociable creatures and their integral part of their instincts inherited from animals is to create groups because these very groups give them higher chances to survive. However, the right way isn’t to be an ordinary foot soldier who is fulfilling the orders indiscriminately. No way.
         Our association isn’t trying to create a formless mass. We want to support each individual to get involved, contribute with his skills and experience to the progress of himself and the community, that rewards him not only with appreciation but also with help in difficult life situations.
It is foolish to think that we know everything and can do everything by ourselves.
          We are not a group of anonymous people hiding behind nicknames and false identities. We stick to personal communication, feelings and information that can be transfered face to face only. What would be success for, if we could not share it and celebrate with anyone? Direct contact among people creates stronger bonds than years of writing on the Internet, texting or other communication channels that are easily accessible nowadays.

We help each other
          The truth is seeked really hard in the world filled with so much information. There are many  life crossroads and nobody is able to understand everything and decide properly, which way to go. There is no reason to invent a bicycle over and over again, when our neighbour drives a car already. There is also no need to be lost in uncharted waters and to wait if we fail or get to the result. We can let the more experienced people advise us. We can help them another time in return, for example find a shortcut to success, the right company, the best solution and, last but not least, new friends.

We learn
           The age-long desire to knowledge shows us that we learn the whole life and that there are really many things to learn. Konekuto is trying to fulfill this desire. Even the longest expedition starts with the first step and we want to help you do it.
We make every effort to help create tutorials and teaching programmes in various areas. We want the interested people to have a wide choice during theirattempts to move forwards, become involved and help others by giving them their experience and knowledge and being an example that it is possible and the only thing needed is to want to do it.
Who wants to achieve something, looks for the ways; who doesn‘t, looks for the reasons.

We make the dreams come true
            Who of us has had a brilliant idea that died only because we did not have enough resources or specialists to realize it? Only an initial impulse would do and then everything would go well. You can gain courage and change your dreams into reality with us. Remember, you are always the one who is responsible. We don’t supervise if you make your dreams come true. It is up to you.

What do we want? How do we get it?
             Our personal values come out of the things that we consider important to us; our goals; what we care about; what we consider sacred and what we want to achieve. The values are not constant and eternal; however, the values imprinted during our babyhood are often very strong and remain.  Our goal is not to destroy the current world order but to create an alternative. Our goal is not to achieve that by several years. We have tried that. It is impossible. However, we can live with these values and hand them over to the other generations. We can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
The three attributes of the personal and social revolution are as follows:
Our GOALS – the WAY of thinking – the TOOLS for reaching the goals
Our goals
The association of subjects based on voluntarism engaged in accordance with the politics of KONEKUTO.
1. To contribute to the education of good workforce, independent thinking and ??? business/working. The support of computer literacy and alternative ways of life.
2. To produce the content of Internet projects and particular organization units in the sense of supporting the individuals during the civil society.
3. To provide the working of home servers and webpages placed on the backbone network of the Internet. To provide Internet applications for the support of communication.
4. To provide the material and financial foundations of our association by gaining sponsorships or grants for further development of the intentions of the association. The association tries to use its resources responsibly and leas its members to protection of all the properties that is in its possession or usage.
5. To search a reciprocally profitable cooperation with other similar organizations and other entities and individuals.
6. To represent the Czech republic by attending international events and making the Czech republic visible abroad positively.

The way of thinking
1. Being pushy and egocentric can bring us money and wealth; joy, happiness and friendship hardly.
2. The success of our friends is our success, too. And the other way round.
3. The responsibility depends on individuals, not on the organisation.
4. The constantly sustainable development, life ecology and the native opposition to different power movements that don’t have in their own interest the benefits of our society but only their own.
5. The possibilities to create and coexist are everywhere around us; it is very important to be interested in them.

Tools
Is it possible to reach the goals without any specified tools? Why not. However, do we have time, power and resources to go ahead without any tools? We have to choose our tools. KONEKUTO offers a  wide variety of tools to each person, who decides to join us:

• Personal contact

           It is very important for us to know people personally and trust them. That’s why there aren’t many of us. We don’t need hundreds of people who just observe. The personal contact brings much more. A meeting for a beer or coffee, an occasional meeting to arrange a cooperation or just a friendly visit from the other side of our republic – this all and more is the personal contact with the people from our nonprofit organization.

• Communication platform and Principles

          It is difficult to arrange a good communication tool for all the people, because everyone is so unique and has his own preferences and tools and means. Because of this, people often have to use many different communication tools. Our nonprofit organization has neither funds nor needs to keep the difficult information systems, trainings and so on. We do have a software tool that can help us communicate with other people the way we want to. Everything is on one place. You can learn more about this software tool below or in person.
The second way is the support of subsidiarity and self-help. If you don’t know how to solve a problem or deal with a challenge, you can get in touch with a person in the right place. The coordinators of the civic association KONEKUTO will show you the way. Are you interested in something? Become a coordinator and meet new people and thoughts that will be interesting for you.

• Development and Background

        Every year, our organization contends with problems, how to solve technological background for the ones who need it. We have tried many concepts and solutions so far.We are still looking for the right one. However, you can join us or use the currently available services. , where you can find all the information and contacts. We provide the same services also in the areas of software development, graphic design, multimea. Knowledge and skills of people is really bright. That’s what  KONEKUTO is, too.

• Projects and Movement

           We support the civic initiative and inovative thoughts that help change the world. You can get information about current projects, plans and opportunities from some of our members during a personal meeting. Many people complained they don’t know anything. Who doesn’t want, isn’t interested, doesn’t ask any questions, doesn’t know. If we had to tell everyone about  the content of our heads, we wouldn’t do anything else. So, be interested in the offers. Be sure that they exist and they change every day.

Important beliefs and Cooperation requirements
„The time is just the way it is. Clean your teeth, shut up and join the crowd.“
Is this attitude familiar? Read on. Do you know this view of the world but don’t agree? Read on. Why do people behave how they behave today? Do you think they have no other choice? Do you think the answer „I pay the mortgage“  is worth the question, why do people behave to each other?
Is this activistic guide just a ideology summary including cues about today’s world or is our concern about our common future justified?

„There is no scientific evidence that really supports the notion that anyof our behaviors are strictly the result of our genes. Those behaviorsthat people often attribute to ‘instinct’ or ‘human nature’ can almostalways be tracked to environmental influences. The notion of ‘humannature’ is largely mythological. It stems from primitive religiousnotions that the human being is either ‘good or evil’ inherently. Thepursuit of people who seek to find the “gene” or the like which causes aparticular behavior is essentially a form of superstition. It is like aperson being “possessed by demons” which control their behavior. Thefact is, while Neurochemicals and physiological traits set propensitiesfor a person’s reactions and social gravitation, it is the environmentthat really creates our values and behavior. There is no fixed,predetermined ‘human nature’. Our values, methods and actions aredeveloped and derived from our experiences.“

 Elliot, FA, A neurological perspective of violent behavior. In DH Fishbein, The science, treatment, and prevention of antisocial behaviors, pp. 19-21, 2000, Civic Research Institute

         There are plenty of sociological researches and also our everyday practice show us that unemployment, environment and increasing pressure of how to secure the survival reflect off the human’s behaviour. This study shows, how suffering and aggression can be a consequence of the seediness and how significant is the role that plays the environment in the formation of values. If people need to survive, they need to do what they have to. Are these people “criminals”? They don´t have to be necessarily.

          Our behaviour is based on what we learn together with biosociocial pressure that we have to cope with to survive. Are you being attacked by socially excluded groups, problematic youth or people with pathological behaviour? If an individual grew up in a complete, financially secured family with strong values, would there be any difference after 10 years of child development? Consider it for yourself.

KONEKUTO has one very important role - social memory. The changes that we want to carry out together depend on our habits. It is hard to feel the world in a different way than how our society shows us. The pressure is simply too strong  to exclude ourselves from our lives - after all, it isn´t real and required.

However, we have a unique opportunity. The abstract above shows us that people behave how they were taught. Our common goal is to destroy the monopoly over the life based on monetary system that is kept alive artificially.

We have learnt that the invisible hand of the market can´t do anything, when the system is set incorrectly. That’s why the invisible fist comes that keeps the system - long-term, meaning lacking interventions into the market system, e.g. billion financial injections that just postpone the breakdown. The M3 Index, that is watching the quantity of money in circulation, was kept secret. The reason is the obvious concern that people wouldn’t see, how many uncovered financial resources are being pumped into the economic system. To be more accurate, this covering is not gold or created values. They are households, life standards, health and the debts of all of us.

Why is this system still supported? The creation of the silent consent in our society, the created strong addiction to the “achievements” of today’s world, inertia, the limits of the generation changes or the limits of the social circles on the leading positions. These and many other reasons “help” us stay in happy ignorance.

Blue or red pill?
The “achievements” of this world that keep us in the warmth of this corporate world don’t have to be as shiny as it seems when we take a look at the other side of the coin. The controlled product obsolescence (well-known in the electrotechnical industry), safe patents, combustion engine in this time period. Try to look through the fog that we also help create - maybe just because we don’t have any other choice.

Geothermal energy of the Earth, cars with alternative fuels, cold fusion, cancer treatment and many other inventions were and are kept back from us. Do you ask why? The pharmaceutical companies don’t want to cure us, they just want to treat us - because of money. Healthy people don’t pay. Does it seem like an impossible vulturism? The artificially created flu viruses, AIDS, unbelievable profits from cancer chemotherapies, that is caused by our society only. The billions put into the research of the chemicals that are distributed into our bodies, but in fact, bicarbonate of soda with maple syrup can help eliminate a sour stomach, which is the cause of many diseases, including cancer. Our body defense mechanisms don’t have any other chance how to fight toxins. The folk medicine and Eastern attitude to medicine is considered to be a fraud and an impossible spiritualism without any scientific basis today. However, nobody is interested that this natural healing works for thousands of years. The most effective medicines are based on natural substances, commonly occuring in our nature in plants and organisms. Packaged pills, many side effects and so on - this all is the folk medicine of today.

Are we naive if we think that the existing problem can be changed? Unlike many people with doubts we are trying to work on that. We believe that to give is not a manifestation of weakness. The opinion poll in 1992 showed that more than 50 % of Americans over 18 (94 millions of Americans) worked for a common cause voluntarily more than 4,2 hours a week on average. That makes 20,5 billion hours a year in total. The team spirit does exist despite the egocentric pressure of the existing system. People still strive for the possibility to give something to the others. They don’t have any obvious interest in the profit of their actions. It is simply good to be a initiator. The inventors don’t create their inventions for their own profit but because they want to. People help each other, because they want to. Who doesn’t want, doesn’t help. It’s simple.

Are we alone in that?

Problem

We cover the need of people to not be one-man show and alone. We fill the need to be in social contact, to be useful. If you want to meet people you will like, say hello, the wave will go through. Netweavers.

Solution

Our solution provides wide-range spectre of services to make a good grassroot space - we provide networking services, we share our technologies, we connect ideas, knowledges, experiences and even money to start ideas quickly. But, we prefer DIY culture instead of spending money! We put our solutions into hands by many ways - they can post their articles, publish they own topic-based internet websites, they can ask other people to get help. On daily basis we discuss about new ideas and opportunities, then we provide them to public. Everybody in our network can find or found an opportunity to make good. For them, for us, for family and world. What is different? We are. Online, but we know ourselves, we drink beer together, we enjoy culture together. We are friends, not just colleagues. KONEKUTO means "to connect" - by shaking hands, by email. We are not ideal, because e are learning together how to live better lives.

Example

For example, we can go through recyclation service called "Sbirej vicka", which means "collect PET caps". The first moment of idea was very simple, just to make long-term microsite for fundraising of our projects. After discussion with our members, we wrote an easy article about our plan. After that, readers of this had shared the link to article, in couple of days we had first collective - preliminary school. Because we got a feedback from public, we discussed this idea with our network partners. Then, we made an easy business model thanks to our plastic-producer partner. When we had covered a recyclation process - thanskfully to our partner, we made an easy site on our wordpress network and provided more space to this idea. Nowadays, the initiative is fully on the run and we had collected first kilogrames of this plastic material. Because we support nonprofit initiatives, we wish to make new products from this material and sell the recyclated items to public - the money will be used to fund winner ideas of our collectors. We like to find and engage synergies, we use new technologies to get more juice to ideas, we provide tools to get goals done. We share information, we love collaboration. We are the bridge - nonprofit fans with business minds. Social entrepreneurs? Blah, just people who enjob the joy :-)