Other Way of Making Business: A Virtual e-Commerce Community / CVN Platform

Abstract

This article describes the current problem in the business environment from the department of Cauca – Colombia (South America), and the proposed solution called Project CVN (Spanish initials) “Business Virtual Community for the department of Cauca Internet Commercial Platform or BVC”. Based on a markets research, the architecture of the added value conceived by the project is described; these values support advertising, collaboration, B2C, and B2B, activities framed within the virtual environment of the community. Below, the business model proposed for the community and the logic architecture of the software is described. Lastly the experiences and the learnt lessons throughout the implementation of the project are exposed.