Open AQ: Building the first data hub on pollution
Open AQ: Building the first data hub on pollution
The Problem
Air pollution is a problem because it can cause damage to animals, trees, plants, crops and water sources in the environment. Pollution in the air causes problems for aviation because it reduces visibility, while also being responsible for damaging buildings and other structures.
The Solution
Open AQ’s mission is to enable previously impossible science and thus impact policy and empower the public to fight air pollution through open data, open-source tools, and cooperation. Open AQ aggregates physical air quality data from public data sources provided by government, research-grade and other sources. These groups do the hard work of measuring these data and publicly sharing them, and Open AQ helps make them more universally-accessible to both humans and machines.
Stage of Development
scaling
Organization to Receive Funds
Shared Nation would fund Open AQ.
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