Clean Air COMPASS is led by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), OpenAQ and Sonoma Technologies Inc with seed funding from the Clean Air Fund.

The project’s direction is guided by a community of practice (COMPASS), a network of core partners representing different geographies and data expertise with established credibility to secure the stakeholder feedback needed to build an open-source Data Management System (DMS) that will meet the needs of a wide range of organizations that are monitoring air quality.

Core COMPASS members include: Allin-Wayra, Clean Air Asia, Environmental Compliance Institute (ECI), Science and Community Action Network (SciCAN), and Youth Group on Protection of the Environment (YGPE).

• Conduct stakeholder outreach: May 2025-July 2025 and ongoing
• Develop DMS prototype: August 2025-November 2025
• Pilot DMS prototype: December 2025-September 2026
• Iterate prototype and develop documentation and training materials to support users: March 2026-October 2026
• Secure sustainable funding: October 2026
• Fully launch open-source DMS: November 2026