Initiatives

AQI Hub

OpenAQ’s AQI Hub is a comprehensive and user-friendly resource for understanding Air Quality Indexes (AQIs). An AQI translates complex pollutant concentration data into a simple, understandable format so that people can assess their exposure to air pollution and take action to safeguard their health read more...

OpenAQ Data Platform: Providing Air Quality Data

OpenAQ’s core function is to make air quality data universally accessible and easy to use. To that end, we work to ingest, aggregate, harmonize and share data on our data platform while ensuring its trustworthiness, reliability and resiliency. Our data platform provides interoperable, temporally read more...

Community Engagement

Because data has value only if it is used, OpenAQ introduces potential new users to our data platform and equips users of all abilities with tools to access, understand and use the data. We train groups on how to use the platform, with a focus on reaching potential users who are less data read more...

Community Ambassador Program

The OpenAQ Community Ambassador Program is a leadership training program designed for emerging air quality leaders in low- and middle-income countries. The program focuses on training these air quality advocates to utilize air quality monitoring data in support of community action to fight air read more...

Publications

OpenAQ publishes the only global assessment of whether and how national governments are producing and sharing air quality data with the public. Our most recent assessment found that at least one billion people are living where their national government doesn’t monitor air quality and that less than read more...

Partnership Project: Clean Air Catalyst

The Clean Air Catalyst is a global partnership to accelerate clean air solutions by building understanding of pollution sources, designing locally tailored solutions, and creating strategic coalitions to enact long-lasting change. The pilots are led by local teams in Indore (India), Jakarta read more...

Partnership Project: Predicting What We Breathe

Predicting What We Breathe (PWWB) and Predictive Environmental Analytics and Community Engagement for Equity and Environmental Justice (PEACE for EEJ) are NASA-funded partnership projects between the City of Los Angeles, California State University Los Angeles and OpenAQ. PWWB has built a highly read more...