Simulating a reputation-based sharing economy where communities share their resources and rate one another on reputation and fairness. The goal is to understand how we could replace money with measures that represent our values, to create a regional economy with more social equity and environmentalism built into the way that communities interact.

What is at the heart of the failure of coordination of the largest movement on earth--the ecological movement? It's the dependence on the default interlocking identity, finance, legal, and ownership frameworks. Sideways presents the interlocking infrastructure of identity, economics, conflict resolution, and stewardship that provides the minimum basic protocol for a scalable decentralized layer for new forms of human coordination at scale.