Implementation
The NewVistas community pattern is designed to cover the world’s population, which is expected to peak at 12 billion people in 2100. In the interim, however, the community will start with a single limited partner, who will recruit the next limited partner in a process that will exponentially lead to the founding of units, branches, villages, districts, and a community before growing on to create a NewVista, area, and world area.
While this is a community of productive enterprises, it is also a social setting where people come together to achieve economic prosperity and sustain social prosperity in harmony with the natural environment. This demands close attention to culture, the law, and other factors while maintaining the fundamental character of the NewVistas community concept.
Aspects of community growth
Each community is set up in line with a set of procedures, rules, and guidelines formulated by the NewVistas Foundation. They act as an operating system that guides every aspect of the community’s growth and operations. They also allow for tailoring some aspects to better respond to local circumstances, such as geography, political environment, and culture.
Even though communities are organized into NewVistas, areas, and world areas, each is autonomous in most aspects. This is especially crucial in the growing phase of a community. Highly decentralized units held together by clear facilitative rules allow for uniformity in communities and adaptability to face and, where possible, take advantage of unique realities on the ground. It also provides flexibility in decision-making and eliminates the inefficiencies associated with highly centralized systems.
The community will not necessarily grow from one limited partner only. Different limited partners may set out to recruit others and set up communities in different parts of the world. This creates distinct communities that have been influenced by different environments. It also fuels faster growth, as many limited partners, acting as captains, can recruit new limited partners in different parts of the world, only guided by the NewVistas operating system and relevant requirements.
Communities that will be formed will be required to have a strong connection with the society in which they are to be set up. A strong sense of community and extensive efforts to raise awareness among the target audience will be possible only if a new community takes extra effort to connect with the people in a language they understand. Additionally, decentralization will ensure that captains, and in the future, other servants, are sufficiently empowered to serve.
Charting the growth from one limited partner to a world area
A limited partner who starts off a community by investing at least and thereafter recruiting other limited partners. The captain recruits other limited partners, intending to form a unit with 16 limited partners, including the initial limited partner.
Captains rely on various tools to get their message across and attract people to join in. They conduct various outreach programs within their circles and beyond, recruiting people from diverse backgrounds and demographics. They will also rely on technological tools – the NewVistas operating system being a powerful tool to have potential participants study the community system and help alert recruiters on prospects.
The first captain recruits until they get a unit with 16 limited partners.
The 16-member unit splits to form 2 units with 8 limited partners. One of the members in the new unit becomes a captain after being backed by a majority of the limited partners they intend to serve and satisfying a criterion to qualify. Among other things, the criterion requires the captain to be a model limited partner who is running a successful business, has expressly indicated that they intend to serve, and knows the requirements of their position. In addition, the limited partner must have at least $100,000 in investments in the community. This signifies not only their success but their commitment to the cause of the community. This requirement is mandatory for all subsequent presidencies until a community, with all 24 districts fully constituted, is in place.
Each of the two units so far formed grows to 16 members through the recruitment efforts of all limited partners recruited. As captains recruit, they ensure that the people they engage:
- Are ready to invest at least $20,000
- Have expressly indicated the willingness to invest their net worth in the community
- Are willing to start an individual-owned business once they join
- Represent diversity in terms of demographics (married men, married women, single women, and single men), culture, ethnicity, and other markers as may be present in the target society
- They have confirmed their willingness to move to the community’s physical plant once established and run a business there.
At 16, each of the two units splits to form 4 new units of 8 limited partners. Each unit is led by a captain who comes from one of the four divisions so that one captain is a married man (A), another a married woman (B), a single woman (C), or a single man (D). The four units form a branch, with the four captains comprising a branch presidency.
Each of the four captains continues to actively recruit, aiming to admit 8 more limited partners each, to have 16 members. These 4 units then split, forming 4 more units or another branch. Each unit in the two branches grows to 16 members each, at which point they split, forming 4 branches, with 16 units of 8 members each. At this point, therefore, the community has 128 limited partners organized into 4 branches.
When each unit again grows to reach 16 members, it splits, forming an additional 4 branches of 8. At this juncture, the branch presidencies closely coordinate and monitor recruitment to oversee the establishment of an additional 2 branches, in addition to the growth of existing branches. At the end of this process, there are 10 branches, each with 16 limited partners.
10 branches constitute a village. Consequently, the burgeoning community starts the process of setting up a village board consisting of three presidencies, each with 4 presidents. Each of the 3 presidencies serves a specific agency in the Village Bureau: Human Relations (agency 1), Stewardships (agency 2), and Business Operations (agency 3).
As this happens, the village splits, forming another village with 10 branches, each with 4 units of 8 members each. As before, limited partners in each unit recruit additional limited partners to grow their membership to 16. The units then split, forming 2 more villages of 10 branches each. The community, therefore, has 4 villages at this stage, forming a district. In addition, it has now moved to growing and setting up important infrastructure, including bureau presidencies and a district board.
At the time, the 2 villages split to form 4 villages and, therefore, a district; each branch has 32 limited partners, meaning that a village has 320 members, and therefore, the district has 1,280 limited partners, each with an investment of $20,000.
Of these, there are various community public servants, 10 branch presidencies of 4 presidents in each village, totaling 40 branch presidents (captains) per village, and 160 in the district. There are also 12 village presidents and 12 district presidents, among other presidencies, being set up to serve participants in all agencies’ functions. These public servants invest at least $100,000 to show their commitment and demonstrate their strong performance in running a successful business. In total, there are 200 public servants.
The community’s minimum investment, held at the time in a public bank, can be summarized as follows:
| Number | minimum investment | total | |
| Community public servants | 200 | 100,000 | 20,000,000 |
| Other limited partners | 1,080 | 20,000 | 21,600,000 |
| Total | 1,280 | 41,600,000 |
Setting up a bank and further development
The community proceeds to set up a bank with necessary regulatory approval. It establishes a Community Bank Agency (agency 7) presidency. In this early period, the presidency also performs the functions of the other two banking agencies – Capital Bank (agency 8), and Commercial Bank (agency 9).
The community is still remote, with limited partners largely carrying on with their affairs as normal, though many have already started organizing their affairs in anticipation of the imminent move to the physical plant. The availability of land and building resources are some of the issues that determine how quickly construction can start.
With the more than 41,000,000 that the bank is capitalized with, it can make loans to the community. The bank uses various tools to leverage the funds it has, including near-perfect information and financial instruments, to issue loans of up to 20 times its capital. With these loans, the community puts up the first district building, 40 apartments, and hub buildings at the intersections of village squares.
Meanwhile, growth continues in each unit. On reaching 16, each unit splits. This leads to the formation of 2 districts and the establishment of the Capital Bank Agency. If the physical plant to handle the first district is ready, limited partners can start moving in as soon as they are ready. Meanwhile, construction of the second district commences.
Over time, 16 districts are formed, with various agencies being operationalized. When the split happens, forming 32 districts, 24 of them remain in the original community. The remaining 8 form their own community and continue the growth, getting to 16 and then to 32, at which time the remainder will break off and form a third community. Before future communities are formed, their physical plant is first constructed. Extra districts from different communities can come together to form communities without growing from 8 districts.
Once a full community is formed, with all agencies and the physical plant in place, it can start contemplating helping those unable to raise $20,000 in investment but still yearning to join. The Human Relations Agency levies a 10% participation fee on limited partners’ return on investment, which it uses to provide for the welfare of such cases and helps them gain a foothold in the community before they can become limited partners. Such cases include the homeless, immigrants, and others who are in disadvantaged positions.
Over time and growth, 5 communities are formed. The grouping of 50 communities is known as a NewVista. There is extensive collaboration between the 50 communities, though each community is autonomous. Inter-community infrastructure, for example, is handled jointly. The Council of 50, comprised of Capital Bank Agency presidency from each community, handles most aspects of this collaboration.
Through the same growth approach, other NewVistas grow, starting at the unit level, until 5 NewVistas, or 250 communities, are formed. This grouping is known as an area and is served by seventies presidencies. 40 such areas form a world area presidency, which serves around 1 billion people.
As discussed earlier, communities are likely to grow spontaneously in different places as the NewVistas idea catches on. Area seventies and world area presidencies play an important role in guiding the growth of these communities to make sure they are set up properly and can make recommendations on whether to split, dissolve, or merge communities based on available growth and performance data.
In summary, the community system is organized as follows:
| Item | Detail | Number of LPs |
| Limited partner | The core building block of the community, a limited partner has invested $20,000 and has an individual-owned business. They may or may not have dependents | 1 |
| Unit | A unit will have between 8 and 16 limited partners during the community setup phase. Subsequently, it will have between 8 and 12 limited partners along with their dependents, served by a captain | 8 – 16 during growth, thereafter 8 – 12 |
| Branch | A branch consists of 4 units. Each unit is diverse, but in total, a branch has a near-equal number of married men (A), married women (B), single women (C), and single men (D). Each is represented in all presidencies, including the branch presidency | 32 – 40 |
| Village | 10 branches a village, served by a village board composed of 3 presidencies that perform functions of agencies in the Village Bureau | 320 – 400 |
| District | A district is formed by 4 villages. It is served by a district board of 3 presidencies that perform the duties of agencies in the district board. Each district has a district building when fully formed. The district building also houses other community public servants, including a specific agency presidency | 1300 – 1600 |
| Community | The community is formed by 24 districts. Additionally, there are 24 agencies serving agencies in various functions, including business development, asset leasing, and banking, among others | 100,000 |
| NewVista | A NewVista is composed of 50 communities. The communities collaborate on common interests, such as transport infrastructure and utilities, through the coordination of the Council of 50 | 5,000,000 |
| Area | 250 communities are served by a seventies (area presidency) who selects trustees who serve in each of the communities | 25,000,000 |
| World Area | Approximately 40 areas make up a world area. Each world area has around 1 billion people and is served by a world area presidency | 1,000,000,000 |
The Big Picture
Instead of change through piecemeal, uncoordinated efforts, the DNA-style NewVistas pattern enables human civilization to completely reset how it occupies land, consumes resources, handles waste, and applies engineering, technological, economic, organizational, and social advances.
This comprehensive community pattern will allow us to fully integrate all community aspects into one cohesive whole, with the latest blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine-learning, cloud, and algorithm technologies embedded into energy, transportation, agriculture, education, finance, housing, and all other systems serving a community.
In summary, the NewVistas pattern provides an essential matrix for synergizing human science and technology in a manner that can replace humanity’s past and current errors of infrastructure, organization, and economics, so more people can enjoy more health and prosperity.