The community-based network is, in essence, a more informal consortium of organizations that are like-minded. Together, they form a business ecosystem that aims to foster collaboration across different industries to create new business opportunities. The architecture of this network is as follows:

In this model, the solution may evolve into a marketplace where each member may work to offer added-value services. The power of this model comes from the implicit free structure and the freedom for the best idea to surface. This is the best model to naturally support the concept of a decentralized network and governance. It can, however, suffer from the same issues as the consortium if the contributions of its members are not well aligned and the potential liabilities are ignored.