On the first day of the conference, the Kaospilots had been invited to organize an afternoon of testing new communications tools in different locations around Copenhagen.
They included: Listening to pirate radio set up in a shopping mall; e-blogging on the internet; live streaming on the internet site Bambuser.com of footage recorded by cell phone; using the media sprinkler to mass-disseminate sms messages to cell phones and using Jaiku to disseminate information via cell phone.
Nokia provided cell phones for the Expo of the conference and Telia provided sim-cards which made the testing possible.
The following are moments captured along the Expo-route.
Punctuality. Amy Hamilton of the Kaospilots used a timer to ensure that objectives were met by the participants within the stipulated time frame. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS.
Jussio Impiö from Nokia Research Centre in Kenya and Osama al-Habahbeh from IMS listen to pirate radio which was temporarily set up in a Copenhagen shopping mall. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS
Testing new techniques of information sharing. Sanjana Hattotuwa from CPA in Sri Lanka. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS.
Taking down the airwaves from pirate radio. From left: Elshad Farzaiyev, IMS Azerbaijan, Finn Rasmussen, IMS and Mikhail Doroschevich, e-Belarus. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS.
How to "Jaiku" - presentation at the Expo day of the IMS conference.
From left in the background: Ann-Nina Finne, IMS, Jesper Højberg, IMS and Thomas Hughes, IMS. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS.
Putting yourself to work.
Participants in the IMS conference were sent out in the streets of Copenhagen - here interviewing at the Grand Central Railway Station in Copenhagen to get a feel of the new tools. From left: Les Mommsen, SW Radio Africa; Finn Rasmussen, IMS and Biljana Tatomir, OSI. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS.
Sending sms messages galore with Jaiku at the Grand Central Railway Station of Copenhagen.
From left: Finn Rasmussen, IMS; Wijayananda Jayaweera, UNESCO; Christina Dahlman, SIDA assisted by Kaospilot Amy Hamilton. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS.
How to set up a blog and become a blogger yourself. From left: Sunanda Deshapriya, Freedom Media Movement in Sri Lanka and Helene Bach, IMS. Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS.
Andrew Puddephatt, Global Partners UK and member of the board of IMS, testing the new tools presented at the IMS conference in Copenhagen.
Photo: Lotte Dahlmann/IMS.