Communities and social networks have existed throughout human history. However, the recent advancement of technology combined with creativity and innovation have transformed social network (social and relationship capital) that drives connection, communication, collaboration, and cooperation among people. Technology led to the emergence of different kinds of online social networks, communities, or platforms. OneBillionBuyers.com is designed as an online network to promote connections between altruistic wealthy people as business sponsors and entrepreneurs or managers as stewards. This leads to the building of cooperative communities and collaborative partnerships for sharing ownership risks and reward whilst building a prosperous digital economy.
The Internet has truly changed the world and dozens of social networks emerged and have taken over the worldwide web. Many of these networks have become popular and now boast of millions and hundreds of millions of active users. This is because promoters of these networks discovered how to leverage emerging trends – new technologies (Internet, mobile devices, apps, software, and databases), social capital, creativity, innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship to perform one important task – ‘connect’ people together. Most people know about the biggest social networks – such as Facebook that connects friends; LinkedIn that connects professionals and businesspeople; WhatsApp and Skype which allows families, relatives, and associates to connect and communicate cheaply; Flickr that empowers people to connect to share photos and YouTube which enables people to connect to share videos.
In today’s data driven, networked Internet economy, there are still some missing networks – like OneBillionBuyers.com that will enable individuals and groups of funders, plus entrepreneur and their businesses to connect and share information and knowledge on the risks and rewards of ownership of uniquely identifiable, revenue-producing assets. Global business community and international development promoters should advance the emergence of a new socioeconomic network that enables passive owners to connect with active owners through more sustainable catalytic investments, innovative ownership, and intelligent trade. OneBillionBuyers.com will take full advantage of the same existing digital opportunities, social capital (power of crowd), innovation, knowledge, strategy, and entrepreneurship to perform similar task – ‘connect’ today’s owners and tomorrow’s owners together through special purpose business models. To accomplish this unique connection, sponsors and stewards must promote new trading system to enable new investment strategy or financing model, plus market, and payment innovations.
Creating connection between passive owners and active owners in order to advance twin trade and transfer for the digital economy should begin with developing unique global socio-economic ecosystem like SIDO system that facilitate new mechanism called multi-step investment entry, harvesting, and exit processes. This process ensures that over a specified period, ownerships of revenue-producing assets are created, held, insured, cleverly shared, increased/decreased through trade and exchange transactions. That is investment ownership mostly of revenue-producing real estate assets are funded using catalytic capital, shared, and gradually traded/transferred from syndicates of sponsors as passive owners to entrepreneurs as active owners.