TICTeC 2020: Openly available air quality data: not just blue-sky thinking - Sruti Modekurty
Channel: mySociety
Date: 02/04/2020

Sruti Modekurty is the Platform Lead at OpenAQ in the United States. 

This presentation was part of mySociety's The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference (TICTeC) held virtually on 24 & 25 March 2020. 

The Q&A with Sruti about this presentation can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/1ho4AqIYCEY

TICTeC 2020 bought together 180 people from over 30 different countries. 

It was the sixth in an annual series of conferences from mySociety, focusing on the impact that civic technology and digital democracy are having upon citizens, decision makers and governments around the world.

To find out more about TICTeC please visit: http://tictec.mysociety.org

Session description:

Air pollution is responsible for one out of eight deaths around the world. OpenAQ and a community of open data lovers set out on a mission, guided by the simple question: what if all the world’s air quality data were openly available?

By filling a basic data-access gap, OpenAQ has enabled the fight against air inequality, the unequal access to clean air.