OpenAQ: Providing Universal Access to Air Quality Data to Empower a Global Community of Changemakers in Solving Air Inequality

OpenAQ is an environmental tech nonprofit that aggregates and harmonizes open ambient air quality data from across the globe onto a free, open-source data platform so that anyone concerned about air quality has unfettered access to the data they need to analyze, communicate, and advocate for clean air. By providing universal access to air quality data, OpenAQ empowers a global community of changemakers to solve air inequality–the unequal access to clean air. In this poster, developments on the platform, initiatives and use cases for the data in OpenAQ, and ways that OpenAQ has supported data hosting and management for air quality data in low- and middle-income countries are presented. This poster was presented at the 2024 July ESIP Meeting in Asheville, NC (July 22-26, 2024).