Why binonabiso.com?

This question can be answered in two steps:

1. Why Bino na Biso?
Bino na Biso is Lingala for "You and we". It's a very short description of what we try to do: Cultural Exchange. Since an exchange in only one way would not be real exchange and "x-aid-projects", where x is mostly "development" allow not to meet on the same eye-level, Bino na Biso is run by a team of both Austrian and Congolese people.

2. Why .com?
Bino na Biso started up a "Humanist Cooperative" in Kinshasa last year. Our idea was and is, to have a also economic and organizational base for cultural exchange. Our first activities are in the field of IT-Trainings for young people, since we consider ICTs as crucial for any from of exchange. In order to stay independent our model of a humanist cooperative is financed by the parents of the pupils.
So why .com? Cooperatives are economic organizations - also, the .com helps us to astonish the ones, who thought that only development-aid would be appropriate for African countries.