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Partner journeys: macro, meso, micro, pico
Architecture: societal architecture
Sustainable sector journeys
The sustainability of sector journeys (also called meso journeys) is the responsibility of meso-level actors that represent the common interests of individuals and households or businesses and organisations in the discourse and decision making regarding Sustainable landscape, #MacroJourneys and #WWlgu.
Sector journeys: share using #isicWW !
See Economic activities (#isic & #b4sdgs) for hashtags for the world's economic activities, ranging from agriculture and fishing to the manufacture of air and spacecraft.
The #isicWW hashtags support online discourse and information sharing for each sector in its journey towards the sustainable development goals.
There are global sector hashtags such as #isic0112 - Growing of rice, and national sector hashtags such as #isic0112PH for growing of rice in the Philippines (PH).
What are meso-level actors?
The actors at the meso-level include industry associations, (sector) labour unions, standards organisations, science and engineering academies, and specialized public sector agencies at national and international level.
These meso-level actors (and roles) are included in the Actor Atlas:
- AGORA-parl.org
- Asia Pacific CoP-MfDR
- Bankers Association
- Civil service commission
- Climate Technology Centre and Network (UNFCCC)
- Department of Education
- e-Agriculture (Community of Practice)
- Energy access practitioner network
- Global Centre for ICT in Parliament
- Guideline Clearinghouse
- International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM)
- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
- International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations
- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
- International Rice Research Institute
- Inter-Parliamentary Union
- Kaggle
- League of Cities
- League of Municipalities
- League of Provinces
- League of Vice Governors
- Professional Regulatory Board
- Reproduction rights organisations
- Tax Justice Network
- Teacher and Teacher Educators from sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)
- Teacher's Association
- Technology Executive Committee (UNFCCC)
- United Nations Peacebuilding Commission
- Wikiworx Academy
A key characteristics of these actors is their role in structuring claims to sector assets, and the governing and consolidating access to sectoral knowledge assets such as dominant designs, product architectures, standards and regulations.
Mutual competition is not typical among meso-level actors within a particular territory. They rather contribute to a business environment that is conducive for fair competition among the sector or industry participants (for instance, the members of the sector or industry association, labour unions agreeing equal labour costs for workers in a sector).
Why they matter?
Each part of the economy, such as ground transportation, agriculture, retail or banking involves a typical portfolio of processes and assets. It consumes a range and volume of material resources [1], and it emits a unique portfolio of gases, aerosols and waste that affect the environment and the climate in different ways and on different timescales [2].
Society benefits from translating scientific and technological advances into portfolios that reduce "environmental" footprints of the various parts of the economy, while ensuring equity.
Society also benefits from ensuring sector compliance to socio-economic and environmental principles, regulations and targets.
Meso-level actors are major instruments for an efficient, cost-effective and fair dialogue between society and corporate actors. In this dialogue society is represented by its macro-level actors, and the meso-level actors represent the corporate (micro) and pico actors (individual workers). Within the various parts of the economy these corporate actors handle the bulk of the operations: competitive, yet equally constrained by rules and equally supported with the fruits of the other parts of the economy.
Case studies
The paper on VAT-compliance in ERP Systems identifies a lack of meso-level resources as a cause of increased risks at companies. Also the Workshop on Orchestrating Industrial Data address typical meso-level issues.
Meso-level Classifications
Several classifications are relevant:
- ISIC Rev.4 (International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Rev.4; ref: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=27&Lg=1)
- BEC (Classification by Broad Economic Categories; ref: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=10&Lg=1)
- COPNI (Classification of the Purposes of Non-Profit Institutions Serving Households; ref: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=6&Lg=1)
In his recent book How Change Happens, Duncan Green (@fp2p) cites his January 2016 interview with Paul Polman (@PaulPolman) to describe the low profile attitudes of transnational corporations (TNCs) when it comes to climate change lobbying. Corporations (micro level) leave the dirty work to business associations (meso level) (p.161-162):
Jan Goossenaerts
@collaboratewiki