Towards an Open Global Air Quality Monitoring Platform to Assess Children's Exposure to Air Pollutants in the Light of COVID-19 Lockdowns

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Main Authors: Last, Christina, Pramanik, Prithviraj, Saini, Nikita, Majety, Akash Smaran, Kim, Do-Hyung, García-Herranz, Manuel, Majumdar, Subhabrata
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Published: 2021
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author Last, Christina
Pramanik, Prithviraj
Saini, Nikita
Majety, Akash Smaran
Kim, Do-Hyung
García-Herranz, Manuel
Majumdar, Subhabrata
author_facet Last, Christina
Pramanik, Prithviraj
Saini, Nikita
Majety, Akash Smaran
Kim, Do-Hyung
García-Herranz, Manuel
Majumdar, Subhabrata
contents This ongoing work attempts to understand and address the requirements of UNICEF, a leading organization working in children's welfare, where they aim to tackle the problem of air quality for children at a global level. We are motivated by the lack of a proper model to account for heavily fluctuating air quality levels across the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to uncertainty among public health professionals on the exact levels of children's exposure to air pollutants. We create an initial model as per the agency's requirement to generate insights through a combination of virtual meetups and online presentations. Our research team comprised of UNICEF's researchers and a group of volunteer data scientists. The presentations were delivered to a number of scientists and domain experts from UNICEF and community champions working with open data. We highlight their feedback and possible avenues to develop this research further.
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spellingShingle Towards an Open Global Air Quality Monitoring Platform to Assess Children's Exposure to Air Pollutants in the Light of COVID-19 Lockdowns
Last, Christina
Pramanik, Prithviraj
Saini, Nikita
Majety, Akash Smaran
Kim, Do-Hyung
García-Herranz, Manuel
Majumdar, Subhabrata
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
This ongoing work attempts to understand and address the requirements of UNICEF, a leading organization working in children's welfare, where they aim to tackle the problem of air quality for children at a global level. We are motivated by the lack of a proper model to account for heavily fluctuating air quality levels across the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to uncertainty among public health professionals on the exact levels of children's exposure to air pollutants. We create an initial model as per the agency's requirement to generate insights through a combination of virtual meetups and online presentations. Our research team comprised of UNICEF's researchers and a group of volunteer data scientists. The presentations were delivered to a number of scientists and domain experts from UNICEF and community champions working with open data. We highlight their feedback and possible avenues to develop this research further.
title Towards an Open Global Air Quality Monitoring Platform to Assess Children's Exposure to Air Pollutants in the Light of COVID-19 Lockdowns
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12505