6ix Degrees attempts to kill two birds with one stone. Without running around in fancy 'intellectual-sounding' wording, this is what it does:
1: Provide a mobile applications that retrieves all contacts in the users' phonebook and backs-up these in a remote server. The user can perform periodical phonebook backups which are added onto the existing server data.
2:Using the theory of six-degrees-of-separation, an algorithm sifts through this data to provide a relational nation-wide directory.