Seeking experts to contribute to 2030 Compass CoLab

Thanks to everyone who has contacted us to participate in 2030 Compass CoLab. We have now closed our registration page. If you have questions, please contact Sara Talebian at Stockholm Environment Institute sara.talebian@sei.org.

About the project

In 2030 Compass CoLab, experts in sustainable development will participate in a three-week online exercise, now scheduled to start in late April 2021. Experts will be invited to contribute their perspectives on potential interactions between the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We hope that participants can engage at least 1-2 hours per week by contributing their own ideas and commenting on ideas previously submitted by others.

2030 Compass CoLab is a collaboration between the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and the Stockholm Environment Institute. By obtaining insights from experts who possess broad and diverse knowledge, using an online process, we hope to develop a richer understanding of how the SDGs may be complementary or conflicting.

The exercise offers an opportunity to join a collaboration that seeks to build knowledge about how various contextual factors affect SDGs interactions. We plan to credit the online participants who wish to be acknowledged on the 2030 Compass CoLab web site and in publications that result from this effort.

2030 Compass CoLab is part of a larger project, Agenda 2030 Compass Methodology and toolbox for strategic decision making, funded by Vinnova, Sweden's government agency for innovation.

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