Air Pollution Kills Millions Every Year. Your Vote For OpenAQ Can Help Change That. (No Really!)
tl;dr — OpenAQ is making the world’s air quality data accessible and open to researchers, scientists, developers and everyone else. They’re unleashing a wave of creativity and ingenuity around the world in the fight against air pollution. You can help. They’re one of Top 6 teams competing for the Open Science Prize:
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Curious to know a bit more before you vote? Sure. Let me ‘splain it to you:
I believe that clean air is a basic human right. But, we are a long way away from having clean air in many parts of the world. Here are some facts about air pollution that blow my mind:
- 92% of the people in the world don’t have access to clean air.
- 6.5 million people die prematurely every year because of air pollution. That’s more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and traffic accidents combined.
- Scientists don’t yet know the precise extent of health affects of sustained exposure to very unhealthy and hazardous air quality levels, because most air quality research thus far has been done in the West with relatively cleaner air than in India, China, Mongolia and a growing list of other countries. OpenAQ’s data is helping change that!
The OpenAQ founders are Christa Hasenkopf and Joe Flasher. Christa is a climatologist, while Joe handles the technical front!👏👏👏
Meet Smokey
There is no reason why air quality data shouldn’t be as easy to access and understand as weather data. For the past year, I’ve been working to make that happen for worldwide air quality data with Smokey — a friendly facebook chatbot. Click to chat with Smokey today!
Thousands of people from 20+ countries have talked to Smokey to get a beautifully designed real-time air quality report right within Messenger. It works around the world in 33+ countries thanks to OpenAQ’s data.
“Only you can prevent air pollution deaths. Vote for OpenAQ.” — Smokey
None of my work would have been possible without OpenAQ. Thank you OpenAQ and thank you for reading (and voting)!