Abril fue un mes intenso políticamente en Asgardia, y el Parlamento tiene varias actualizaciones para compartir con ustedes. Empecemos con algunas impresiones del Congreso Ejecutivo que tuvo lugar en Viena entre el 10 y el 12 de abril. Este evento histórico ha sido importante por dos razones principales. Primero, porque fue la presentación del recién formado Gobierno de Asgardia con sus 12 ministros. Segundo, porque fue la primera oportunidad oficial para que ambos, los ministros y los presidentes de los comités parlamentarios trabajen juntos. El presidente del Comité de Manufactura, Parlamentario Fernando Jiménez Motte, comentó después del evento que estuvo muy bien organizado, particularmente considerando que el evento tuvo lugar al mismo tiempo que la segunda sesión virtual del Parlamento. En sus propias palabras, "fue positivo el hecho de que tuvimos la oportunidad de establecer puentes entre los comités así como entre los ministros y los presidentes de los comités para acelerar el éxito de Asgardia". Si bien el evento tuvo una organización excelente, Asgardia superó una variedad de desafíos logísticos y técnicos que sirvieron como lecciones valiosas para futuros congresos y sesiones digitales. El presidente del Comité de Comercio, Parlamentario John Fine, comentó sobre el Congreso Ejecutivo celebrado en Viena que "en conjunto, fue una conferencia maravillosa con muchos grandes avances que tendrán un gran impacto en el éxito de Asgardia". El Parlamentario Fine hizo una excelente presentación sobre lo que el comité ha estado haciendo, así como los planes a corto, medio y largo plazo para el comité de Comercio de Asgardia. Mencionó su colaboración con otros comités de legislación. Por ejemplo, están trabajando con el Comité de Equidad y Recursos en el proyecto de legislación "Ley de Actividades y Proyectos de Asgardia"; con el Comité de Ciencias en la edición y revisión de la legislación sobre Cooperación Internacional en los “Usos Pacíficos de la Resolución del Espacio Ultraterrestre” que esperan tener lista para la revisión del Parlamento pronto. En cuanto al trabajo que está realizando actualmente el Parlamento, la primera actualización de hoy es del presidente del Comité de Ciencia, Parlamentario Luca Sorriso-Valvo. Cuando se le preguntó sobre el trabajo de su comité, el Parlamentario Sorriso-Valvo compartió con nosotros que en sus reuniones regulares comenzaron estableciendo las prioridades del comité, definiendo los roles en el comité y sus grupos de trabajo. Sorriso-Valvo ha descrito varias áreas que son muy relevantes para las necesidades actuales de Asgardia que el comité está examinando actualmente, tales como temas ambientales, así como el tema de fondos para la investigación. A continuación, tenemos la actualización del siempre ocupado Comité del Ciudadanía. La presentación del Ministro de Ciudadanía, Ron Schechter, y el Presidente del Comité de Ciudadanía, Ben Dell, mostró la estrecha interacción entre el Ministerio y la comisión parlamentaria y sus miembros. El Comité de Ciudadanía está en conversaciones con la Ministra Elizabeth Díaz de Educación para permitir que los Parlamentarios de Asgardia obtengan capacitación específica en investigación y redacción legislativa. El comité también mantuvo conversaciones con el ministro Leon Shpilsky y el presidente del Tribunal Supremo Zhao Yun sobre los aspectos legales y financieros de la ciudadanía en Asgardia. El día de hoy, el Comité de Información y Comunicación está trabajando para encontrar formas de que el Parlamento sea más accesible a los ciudadanos a través de las redes sociales y otras posibles opciones digitales. El presidente del Comité de Información y Comunicación, Dennis Shoemaker, también confirmó que el comité está trabajando actualmente en la legislación relativa a dos de los mandatos constitucionales del comité que tendrían un impacto directo y positivo en los ciudadanos. La primera es la legislación basada en el Artículo 6 que se refiere al tratamiento de datos personales en la Base de datos espacial de Asgardia para convertirse en ciudadano, y la segunda, basada en el Artículo 22, relativa a la protección de datos personales en Asgardia. El Presidente Shoemaker destacó también el hecho de que el comité está coordinando con el Ministerio de Información y Comunicación sobre la legislación necesaria para el trabajo y los proyectos ministeriales. Hablando con los presidentes de nuestros comités hay un cálido sentimiento de bienvenida hacia nuestros nuevos ministros. El parlamento ha estado trabajando durante casi un año, y estamos animados por la creación del gobierno como una asociación positiva, ya que representa la finalización de todas las ramas del gobierno asgardiano. Además, esto aumentará en gran medida la productividad del gobierno asgardiano ahora que podrá comenzar a trabajar en proyectos vitales para el crecimiento financiero de Asgardia. El Parlamento espera con interés trabajar con nuestros 12 ministros y ayudarlos a tener éxito en su misión mientras construimos nuestra joven nación. Juntos podemos construir un gobierno de Asgardia más fuerte, que sea capaz y esté listo para guiar a Asgardia hacia el futuro.

Super excited about asgadiatv.com I created my own channel and will start uploading my videos to it. My first contribution : https://asgardiatv.com/v/72?channelName=Riebens

See video attached of what our Parliament has been treated with! https://www.spacecitizennews.com/scn023-podcast-episode-23/ IN TODAY’S EPISODE 23rd episode of the Space Citizen News Podcast. AMP Cheryl Gallagher Chair of the Culture Committee comes to share news about Parliament, interview with Asgardian Mayoral Candidate for Trier in Germany Inara Tabir, pages 14 and 15 of the new Roadmap of Asgardia booklet: comments on the Continental Structure of the Nation and the Economy System of Asgardia, keeping an eye on our National Statistics, update on the upcoming events in Asgardia for 0004 aka 2020.

Policy documents in international organizations or at country level ask us to become ‘informed patients’, ‘engaged and active citizens’ and ‘empowered communities’. But most of us lack access to the necessary information and do not have the necessary skills to drive decisions for our health. These skills are the essence of health literacy, defined as ‘the ability to make sound health decisions in the context of everyday life (Gastein Health Declaration 2005). Some countries of the world have a poorly articulated health service and lack of instruments to implement it, but it is from these countries that serious threats come to the health of the world as a whole. No country is spared from a public health emergency of international concern. Asgardia, the only nation with citizens spread all over the world, could have a major paper in the coordination of such kind of threats. Without big country agendas running behind at the same time, the knowledge freely offered to the citizens of Asgardia will enable them to act in an informed manner and protect themselves from these threats and, at the same time help all the other countries in distress.

Hello dear Asgardians, What do you think about building cities for Asgardia on the sea like the Oceanix city project ? With this, we'll have our true (and first) sovereign territory. This is compatible with our national constitution (article 5, point 3 of the constitution). The link of the Oceanix cities project : https://oceanix.org/

SpaceX has put online a docking simulator that allows you to get to know the controls that are used to dock their Dragon 2 vehicle with the ISS space station. This is pretty awesome and wouldn't it be amazing if we could develop simulators like this for Asgardia? https://iss-sim.spacex.com/

An Idea, might have been discussed on different forums, so apology in advance if I am doubling this. I was conflicted to post it either here or in Asgardia. But anyway, the idea is related to the actual passport that is at this moment future music. I study in security and privacy and your ID is very important as it defines who you are and that you are part of the space nation. My suggestion/idea is to make a digital print, I mean with this that you got a unique ID, with your picture, your iris scan, information, and status (Asgardian or Resident). Additionally, I would say, link a Two-Way-Authentication to it. Why? Because the security system is linked to one unique mobile and it secures your passport ID. So for example, you want to update your status from Asgardia to Resident, you let an app scan your ID and a Two-Way-Authentication is required to continue. You received the code, insert the code, and continue paying your sols. Of course, you can add more to it, but this could be a useful start :)

Humans evolved to educate themselves — not sit in rows. All normal children are intensely curious, playful and sociable, beginning at birth or shortly after. A fourth drive, which we might call "planfulness" — the drive to think about and make plans for the future–emerges and strengthens as children grow older. It is reasonable to refer to these drives as the "educative drives". The biological foundations of these drives, encoded in DNA, have been shaped by natural selection, over our evolutionary history, to serve the purpose of education. Our standard schools quite deliberately suppress these drives, especially the first three of them, in the interest of promoting conformity and keeping children fixed to the school’s curriculum. Self Directed Education operate by allowing these natural drives to flourish. Here is a bit of elaboration on each of these drives and how they interact with one another to promote education: CURIOSITY Aristotle began his great work on the origin of knowledge (Metaphysica) with the words, “Human beings are naturally curious about things.” Nothing could be truer. We are intensely curious, from the moment of our birth to, in many cases, the moment of our death. Within hours of birth, infants begin to look longer at novel objects than at those they have already seen. As they gain mobility, first with their arms and hands and then their legs, they use that mobility to explore ever-larger realms of their environment. They want to understand the objects in their environment, and they particularly want to know what they can do with those objects. That’s why they are continuously getting into things, always exploring. That’s why, once they have language, they ask so many questions. Such curiosity does not diminish as children grow older, unless schooling quashes it, but continues to motivate ever more sophisticated modes of exploration and experimentation. Children are, by nature, scientists. PLAYFULNESS The drive to play serves educative purposes complementary to those of curiosity. While curiosity motivates children to seek new knowledge and understanding, playfulness motivates them to practice new skills and use those skills creatively. Children everywhere, when they are free to do so and have plenty of playmates, spend enormous amounts of time playing. They play to have fun, not deliberately to educate themselves, but education is the side effect for which the strong drive to play came about in the course of evolution. They play at the full range of skills that are crucial to their long-term survival and wellbeing. They play in physical ways, as they climb, chase, and rough-and-tumble, and that is how they develop strong bodies and graceful movement. They play in risky ways, and that is how they learn to manage fear and develop courage. They play with language, and that is how they become competent with language. They play socially, with other children, and that is how they learn to negotiate, compromise, and get along with peers. They play games with implicit or explicit rules, and that is how they learn to follow rules. They play imaginative games, and that is how they learn to think hypothetically and creatively. They play with logic, and that is how they become logical. They play at building things, and that is how they learn to build. They play with the tools of their culture, and that is how they become skilled at using those tools. Play is not recess from education; it IS education. Children learn far more in play, and with far more joy, than they could possibly learn in a classroom. SOCIABILITY We humans are not only the most curious and playful of mammals, but also the most social. Our children come into the world with an instinctive understanding that their survival and wellbeing depend on their ability to connect with and learn from other people. All humans, but especially young humans, want to know what those around them know and share their own thoughts and knowledge with others. Anthropologists report that children everywhere learn more by watching and listening to the people around them than through any other means.[1] Our most unique adaptation for social life, which enhances tremendously our ability to learn from one another, is language. Almost as soon as they can talk at all, children start to ask questions. They don’t want to be told about things that don’t interest them, but they almost demand to be told about things that do. Language allows us to share all sorts of information with one another. It allows us to tell one another not just about the here and now, but also about the past, future, and hypothetical. As the philosopher Daniel Dennett put it in a chapter on language and intelligence, “Comparing our brains with bird brains or dolphin brains is almost beside the point, because our brains are in effect joined together into a single cognitive system that dwarfs all others. They are joined by an innovation that has invaded our brain and no others: language.”[2] Self-directed learners, eagerly and naturally, hook themselves into that network. Today, because of the Internet, that cognitive system is bigger than ever before. Young people with access to the Internet have access to the whole world of hypotheses, ideas, and information. Self-Directed Education has never been easier. PLANFULNESS We, far more than any other species, have the capacity to think ahead. In fact, we are driven to do so. We don’t just react to immediate conditions; we make plans and follow through on those plans. This is the most consciously cognitive of our basic educative drives, and it develops more slowly than the others. As children grow older, they become increasingly able and motivated to plan ahead, and ever farther ahead. This is the drive that leads self-directed learners to think about their life goals, big and small, and to deliberately seek out the knowledge and practice the skills needed to achieve those goals. Cognitive scientists refer to this capacity to make plans and carry them out as self-directed executive functioning. Research by such scientists has shown that children who have ample free time to play and explore on their own and with other children, independent of adults, develop this capacity more fully than do children who spend more time in adult-structured activities.[3] That is not surprising. When children create their own activities, without adult control, they are continuously practicing the ability to make plans and carry them out. They make mistakes, but they learn from those mistakes. [by Prof. Dr. Peter Gray] [1] Lancy, D. F., Bock, J., & Gaskins, S. (2010). Putting learning into context. In D. F. Lancy, J. Bock, & S. Gaskins (Eds.), The anthropology of learning in childhood, 3–10. AltaMira Press. [2] Dennett, D. C. (1994). Language and intelligence. In J. Khalfa (Ed.), What is intelligence? Cambridge University Press. [3] Barker, J. et al (2014). Less-structured time in children’s lives predicts self-directed executive functioning. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-16.

What makes everyone unique? The paths we take and the choices we make on our journey. Gordana Biernat

I have noticed the huge drop in Residence numbers, this is disheartening considering what Asgardia is trying to achieve and needs income to complete this. As residents we pay tax in our own country so I agree we should pay to be residents of Asgardia. I also understand a lot of people may find it hard to pay the 100 euros once a year. I put this to our leaders of Asgardia to increase our funds and increase our residence and assist us in achieving our goals as a country, could the once a year fee be broken down to a smaller monthly fee, this would give Asgardia regular income and increased residence. This could be achieved by allowing monthly account transfers and being smaller amount would not be noticed so much within people's budgets.