tcktcktck — Copenhagen 7 Dec 09 | The World Is Ready

The Fresh Air Center was TckTckTck's rapid response digital media hub in Copenhagen that helped civil society connect, collaborate, spread our messages out to the world, and blow off some steam in a fun vibrant workspace. People interested in how Fresh Air worked can read three articles here.

The Fresh Air Center was a very well used and successful effort, and will likely be repeated at future global climate related events. If you'd like to learn more, please email Jason Mogus. In the meantime, stay in the know by joining our Climate Insider rapid response list.

We ran two spaces, a smaller one behind the security perimeter, and a larger, more open space downtown that opens on 10-Dec. Inside the Bella Center our modest space was open on Tue 8-Dec for accredited bloggers, communications staff, and digital campaigners to step out of the madness, correspond with their organizations, and most importantly publish content, write, and perform interviews in a dedicated space equipped with live streaming and video archive capabilities.

We will manage daily briefings and bring in experts and other stories providing inside info, and all content will be live-streamed to the larger, downtown space.

The second space is a large collaboration and community center located downtown, conveniently close to the Metro connected to the Bella Center, in "The Huset" (House). Large enough to support over 120 people working, or 200 for evening events, one section is dedicated to hot-desk space where people can write, publish, communicate, and conduct private meetings.

The larger section is an open lounge-style space, where evening events will take place, a community atmosphere is fostered, and where people can chat informally, enjoy refreshments, build relationships, and blow off some steam.

The two spaces will be connected by a constant digital stream of video, information, and collaborative communication. Both will be available for our NGO partners to organize their own independent briefings and events from. For more info and details on what is available for you, visit our space details page.

Inside the UNFCCC accredited zone at the Bella Center, our space:

• Is modest, with working space for up to 35 people in an open area in the NGO exhibition zone
• Offers high speed internet and power for your laptop
• Where we will manage daily briefings for bloggers. NGO's can sign up for a 15 min shift to brief the bloggers, live, and via video to those gathered at the Fresh Air Centre or watching online
• Connected full time via our streaming media partners including OneWorld, The Uptake, and the Global Observatory
• All content captured by our partners inside the Bella will be beamed live to the downtown space, as well as archived on the live.tcktcktck.org (to be launched on day 1 of the COP) site for partners, bloggers, and the media to use at will

Our main Fresh Air Centre space is located in downtown Copenhagen:

• It is a large, bright, and open artist cafe space, with a dedicated work area and a large lounge area with couches
• Is comfortable to work from, with an espresso bar and evening refreshments (sponsored by one of our partners)
• Offers secure, massive bandwidth wireless Internet, access to printers, and web terminals to get work done, upload videos, and skype call back home
• Will have 4 live streams of rich media content piped in from the action inside the Bella Centre and our streaming content partners. You can be there without being inside!
• Will be buzzing with activity from 10 AM until midnight, with some of the best bloggers and digital campaigners from the movement, all happy to share content, ideas, and collaborations
• Will have a nighly social hour, with discounted drinks (a big deal in expensive Copenhagen), great networking, and entertaining events organized by our partners
• Is in "The Huset", centrally located 5 mins from transit, and around the corner from the town square and the NGO oriented Vartov Center

How to use the Fresh Air Centre:

TckTckTck is providing these spaces at no charge to our partner NGO's, accredited bloggers, and independent media. Here is how you can engage with us:

• Register to send your staff to the space. Each TckTckTck partner can register up to 5 participants working in digital media or storytelling positions to work from the space (sorry but permanent desks are not available, they are given on a first come first served basis).
• Sign up to brief the bloggers during the day, from the Bella Centre (sign up form coming soon)
• Suggest an evening event that you will organize during our nightly social hour. Nightly events must be: entertaining, visual, newsy / topical, fast-paced, and ideally not policy oriented, people have already had a long day!
• Share your content on our content aggregation site, live.tcktcktck.org, or share your video content with our streaming partners
• Come by during our evening social hours and help us change the world together!
• And mostly: use the content generated through hundreds of bloggers, independent media channels, citizen journalists, and other NGO's to spread our messages from COP-15 to the world

Our programming calendar was very full every day, with these offerings for the community:

• 9:00 AM Inside space opens
• 10:00 AM: Downtown space opens



• 11:15am Private Morning Briefing: An expert from the Climate Action Network will join us for a 15 minute briefing to orient you to the day's events and political context.  Inside, but live-streamed to the downtown space (note: this is private briefing for bloggers accredited through Fresh Air only, it is not available to the general public or online)
• Afternoon NGO Blogger Briefings: at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, and 3:30 every day. In the Fresh Air Center space in the Bella Center, and also live-streamed to the world at http://live.tcktcktck.org/freshair and live to the downtown space
• 6-8pm "Real Talk" Happy Hour. Sponsored by the United Nations Foundation, Real Talk offers us a chance to be entertained, hear special presentations from experts and leaders, respond to the day's key events. Discounted drinks help with creating a space for collaboration, connection, and unwinding.
• The downtown space is open every night until midnight (2 AM some nights).

Our goal with Fresh Air is to help civil society define the narratives coming from COP-15, align our messages and actions to emerging strategic priorities, encourage sharing and collaboration, and break through the noise by connecting powerful NGO, blogger, and independent digital media channels together. We want to specifically thank our sponsors, TckTckTck, the United Nations Foundation, Oxfam, NRDC, and Google / YouTube's COP-15 project.

The Fresh Air Center was a very well used and successful effort, and will likely be repeated at future global climate related events. If you'd like to learn more, please email Jason Mogus. In the meantime, stay in the know by joining our Climate Insider rapid response list.