Participate in 2030 Compass CoLab

Compass CoLab is a project of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and Stockholm Environment Institute. It seeks to elicit the perspectives of experts on potential interactions between the goals in the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The results of the exercise will inform the deliberations of an Expert Panel that will be considering SDG interactions in parallel, and selection online contributions will be used to populate a respository of interactions that will be made available to policy makers, business executives, and NGO officials.

The project is running a pilot with a small group of experts in September 2019 and plans to run an exercise with a large number of experts in early 2020.

Learn more about 2030 Compass CoLab, the prerequisites for participation , and participant recognition. Are you, or someone you know, knowledgeable about the SDGs and willing to share perspectives on potential interactions between them by participating for 1-2 hours per week in an online exercise? If so, please complete the form below.

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Prerequisites for Participation

We seek experts with in-depth knowledge of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and potential interactions between them. The 2030 Compass CoLab exercise will be run for approximately four weeks early in 2020. Participants will be encouraged to visit the project’s online platform at least three times per week and spend at least one hour contributing their own ideas and commenting on the submissions of other experts.

Participant Recognition

All participants who wish to be acknowledged as contributors to 2030 Compass CoLab will be listed on the site, in reports that summarize findings from the online exercise, and in the online software tool that will disseminate the findings from the project.

Economic and social factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Per capital income	$15,000 and higher (20 percent above World Bank threshold for high income countries)	$4,000 and lower (World Bank's lower-middle and low income countries)
Level of urbanization	More than three-quarters of people live in urban areas	Less than two-fifths of people live in urban areas
Gender equity	Women's educational attainment and labor force participation are equal to or higher than men's and parliamentary representation is nearly equal	Women's educational attainment and labor force participation are half or less than men's and parliamentary representation is one-tenth or less

Physical infrastructure factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Energy access	Everyone has access to electricity and clean cooking fuels	Less than three-quarters of people have access to electricity and less than one-quarter have access to clean cooking fuels
Water/Sanitation	Everyone has access to clean water and safely managed sanitation	Less than two-thirds of people have access to clean water and less than half have access to safely managed sanitation
Transportation	Ports, airports, roads, and railroads never rated low or very low quality by logistics experts	Ports, airports, roads, and railroads rated low or very low quality by logistics experts half the time or more
Information & communication technologies	Everyone has a mobile subscription and three-quarters of people or more can access the Internet	Less than three-quarters of people have mobile subscriptions and less than one quarter can access the Internet

Human infrastructure factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Governance	In top quarter on surveys and expert assessments that evaluate voice, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption	In bottom quarter on surveys and expert assessments that evaluate voice, political stability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption
Social protection policy	Spend more than 15 percent of GDP on social protection	Spend less than 4 percent of GDP on social protection
Participation in global economy and institutions	In top quarter on multi-dimensional index of economic, political, and social globalization	In bottom quarter on multi-dimensional index of economic, political, and social globalization
Education	Everyone attends secondary school and more than two thirds obrtain post-secondary education	Less than two-thirds of peopleattend secondary school and less than one-fifth obtain post-secondary education

Environmental factors	Top quarter of countries	Bottom quarter of countries
Environmental health and ecosystem viability	Top quarter on index that assesses air and water quality; air pollution and GHG emissions; and status of water resources, fisheries, forests, and habitats	Bottom quarter on index that assesses air and water quality; air pollution and GHG emissions; and status of water resources, fisheries, forests, and habitats
Material footprint	Per capita material footprint is 21 metric tons or greater	Per capita material footprint is 3.5 metric tons or less