It started with a question: what is a network of networks? What does decentralized scalability look like. And we realized, wait, every time we use a government-issued ID or a bank card, we are "in". We are in a network that is invisible to us but that impose serve as an alternative to the government-issued money and identity systems that =s severe limits on coordination among groups and movements. In fact, once you are "in" that system, you cannot feasibly implement Ostrom's principles. The legal foundation doesn't recognize commons. The financial framework sets up individuals as the core unit rather than groups. Identity is offered through bureaucracy rather than human connection.

The Sideways framework, described at https://github.com/SidewaysEarth, expresses a decentralized identity (based on community issuance), a sharing and commons-based economy, conflict resolution through an alternative justice system, and an information system that interlock in the same invisible ways as the existing system, but with zero coercion built in. The framework is designed as a fully decentralized architecture for communities and regions to set their own cultural norms, sharing structures, and cross-community or cross-network enforcement and resolution mechanisms. In this presentation we explain all that blah-blah in a practical way so you can understand how it is relevant and fundamental to any network, movement, regional system or international collaboration you're building.