Hello, Asgardia!

Welcome to the second installment of Let’s Talk, Asgardia! Today, I would like to address some of the questions and concerns from the community regarding leadership elections that are currently under way. I am going to focus on how the community itself can participate in this process and ensure that the leaders they think are best are elected.

Participation Equality

On June 13, 2017, elections for leadership began. In these elections, Asgardians can nominate themselves and vote for others.

FUN FACT:

As of July 8, 2017, there were more than 5,000 leadership nominations!

The leadership positions are open for all Asgardian citizens. Leaders need to show the community what they can do in their position as a leader. They need to become involved in the community online and in person. Unlike many countries around the world, where there is a cost associated with running in an election, signing up to run in Asgardia is free. In Asgardia, everyone has equal footing and an equal chance to prove to the community that they are the best person for the job.

FUN FACTS:

In order to remain impartial, those who are employed by NGO Asgardia, as well as the National Community Managers (formerly Chapter Advocates), are disqualified from running in the leadership elections.

Also leaders at the Trendsetter and Ambassador levels are disqualified from volunteering with Civic.Asgardia; this allows them to devote more time to leading their regions.

How to Evaluate a Leadership Candidate

Are they using their real name? Are they displaying their real picture?

We welcome transparency in Asgardia and are striving to make a responsible society. As with any real government or elected position, community leaders in Asgardia must be accessible, and they must be real. This is not a popularity contest. These leaders will be expected to sign important documents with their real name, and to engage with real-world people and businesses to help build Asgardia. If they want to be leaders, people must show their face and use their real names.

What type of content is included in their campaign posts?

Asgardia is a fledgling nation. It needs community leaders with vision and drive, leaders who can help to create a solid foundation that withstands the test of time and that supports Asgardia’s case for statehood to the United Nations. Our first leaders are breaking ground to lead us into the future by supporting Asgardian citizens globally and within their local area. Whether an elected leaders works within a single city or whether they represent an entire country, community leaders build Asgardia.

Is the candidate located in your relevant area?

Debutant level candidates can only be supported by voters within 300km of their location. While Asgardians can vote for Strategist, Trendsetter and Ambassador  candidates anywhere in the world, voters must remember that if leaders are far away, they may not consider your local needs when elected.

Questions to Ask Leadership Candidates

(What we want to learn about people by asking these questions.)

What types of topics have they discussed on the Asgardia forums and social media outlets?

Leaders must be able to engage with the local community constructively and professionally. They need to be aware of local concerns and ideas, and be able to provide feedback and suggestions that will help Asgardia in a positive manner.

Are they skilled in both English and their local language(s)?

Like the United Nations, Asgardia must have an operational language, which is currently English. Leaders must be able to understand the policies and processes in order to enact them within their areas. Also, they must be able to lobby effectively for their local citizens.

Do you feel they can professionally represent your area to both Asgardia and to the public?

Successful leaders must convey not only confidence, but also must communicate the goals of Asgardia to its citizens and the public. Leaders will be an important part of how the public perceives Asgardia.

How conversant are they in Asgardia policy and procedure?

While representing your area, your leader must understand Asgardia’s history and culture. Use common sense as you evaluate their ability to properly answer questions about Asgardia and its policies and procedures.

What are their plans to help Asgardia grow?

Asgardia grows through member support. Leaders help engage and mobilise citizens in their communities. Ask questions and learn how your candidate plans to help Asgardia become a successful nation, a helpful nation, a long-lasting nation. Use your own judgement in evaluating if these goals are realistic and in line with the core concept of Asgardia.

How will they encourage local members to gather and participate in Asgardia?

Asgardia is a virtual nation, but it is made up of real people. In-person events and responsible management of resources are important in the expansion of our nation. Ask direct questions to find out what they have planned in this area.

What potential do you anticipate for business growth, fund-raising, professional accreditation, and community development grants?

A strong leader needs to grasp many aspects of the community. Nation-building is more than politics. A candidate must have a plan to work with Asgardian businesses. They should have ideas about how to generate revenue and how to encourage citizens to help Asgardia grow.

Have they responded to questions from the community previously?

Leaders themselves grow and evolve. Look at your candidate’s behavior online over the past few months. Find their posts in the forums. Look to see if their behavior matches their statement of intent.

For Next Time

If you have any suggestions for a future Let’s Talk, Asgardia!, please leave a message for me here or send a comment to your national chapter or center.

Cheers!

Rebekah Berg

Head of Community Affairs

NGO Asgardia

On the 25 ^th of June 2018 history was made in the Austrian city of Vienna. Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli was officially inaugurated as the head of state for Asgardia, the Space Nation. While he delivered an inspirational speech to the congregation that was sure to light the fires in the hearts of any devoted Asgardian citizen, the message carried a clear vision of the future.

There has been enough pomp and ceremony for the time-being, so I’m going to get straight into the details.

Timeline to the end of 2018

“It’s no-longer just an idea.” Dr. Ashurbeyli said at the start of his address. He highlighted the fact that we have established all branches of the nation and that Asgardia has officially been born – and this is just the start. Outlined here are the next immediate steps for the nation.

1. Form cabinet of ministers
2. Elect heads of parliamentary committees
3. Members of the court
4. Assemble the prosecutor’s office
5. Assemble national audit office
6. supreme space council
7. complete recruitment of administration
8. establish national bank
9. Introduction of National currency

Timeframe over next 25 years

Our goals for the next 25 years are to make “Significant progress.” in the following three areas:

1. Science, engineering, infrastructure
2. Nation building, economic development
3. philosophy, ideology, space politics

Science & engineering

1. Build infrastructure that is independent from earth
2. Handheld devices: Integrated passport, credit card, smartphones
3. Network of low-earth orbit satellites to be deployed to deliver global internet coverage
4. Core satellites to be placed on high-earth orbit to provide digital state services to Citizens and businesses
5. Free access to space technologies to earthlings regardless of their nationality or advancement
6. Space Arks to be deployed to provide permanent residence to humans in outer-space.
7. Space Arks to have artificial gravity and protection from radiation to enable human reproduction.
8. Asgardia to field space fleet to defend humanity and the planet from threats emanating from outer space.
9. Satellites to orbit the moon
10. Settlements to be established in moon’s orbit and on it’s surface.

Nation Building

1. To establish bilateral agreements with as many states on earth as possible as well as accession to international organisations – both inter-governmental and non-governmental and ultimately the united nations.
2. Open embassies on all continents.
3. Grow population to 2% of the most creative individuals on planet earth (150m pop aprox)

Economic Development

1. Focus specifically and exclusively on delivering value and wellbeing to the citizens;
2. Protecting national sovereignty;
3. Pursuing science and technology space program.

Philosophy, ideology and space politics.

1. In Asgardia, offer the civilisation of Earth an alternative to Geo-politics in the form of space-politics.
2. Open a path to a new spiral of human development.
3. Underscore that Asgardia is a truly avant-garde, technocratic and futuristic state.

One of the greatest thing about the inauguration was that, for the first time, we truly get to see the vision of the future for Asgardia. This is an important time for the nation and I would encourage all citizens to contribute to the success of the nation in any way that they can.

You can watch the full speech from the Head of the Nation himself and the inauguration event on our YouTube channel .

Hello Asgardia!

I wanted to introduce myself, for those who do not know me or are unfamiliar with my dealings within Asgardia. I am the founder of Voices of Asgardia Official - World Asgardian Radio , and the volunteer Communications Coordinator for Civic Asgardia. I have taken the yoke of responsibility to set up better pathways for information flow to keep you, the citizens of Asgardia, informed on our nation's progress.

A few months ago I proposed a project called the ANN - The Asgardia News Network. This proposal was designed to begin generating media within Asgardia itself. I am pleased to announce that the Communications Division of Civic Asgardia is well into development, and the ANN is nearing completion.

At the time of the proposal, there were several newspapers started that were themed specifically for Asgardia; however, upon finding out that the work was going to remain volunteer for a while, most of the projects faded as they lacked the physical support and information flow to continue them. VOA (Voices of Asgardia) has somehow managed to weather this storm, thanks to the powerful contributions by our staff who remain committed to it, no matter the outcome.

The ANN is almost complete and very soon there will be new information out to disseminate to the public. I'm asking you to help me do it by starting your own Asgardian media initiative. There will be no financial support for a while, so it's going to take a passion for the dream and a lot of elbow grease. The rewards will be tremendous, and your countrymen will benefit from your efforts.

Your news outlet does not have to be in English; in fact, I encourage our more estranged communities to reach out to Asgardians in their own languages. Everyone deserves to know what's going on, and even though I can't facilitate all languages, you in the community can. This is a community effort.

I remain committed as a father of two and the founder and lead administrator of Voices of Asgardia to bringing whatever information is available to our citizens. I apologize if things have been blurry the last few months, many things were in development and a lot of the foundation had to be built to reach this point. And now here we are. You each can build your own skyscraper, but you'll need to put in the work to get it done. It will take time, synergy, and coordination, but I know there are those individuals out there that can achieve those goals. Asgardia wants you to be successful, this is your chance to help your community.

I will be answering questions below in the comments if you have any. If there is a delay in response I apologize - I also have two little Asgardians who need my tender loving care - but I will answer as I am able.

To finalize, the ANN is coming - a community pool of articles written by both Asgardian employees and volunteers - ranging in topics from news to the daily life of an Asgardian. You can contribute to our success by helping us get the word out through your own mediums and/or writing your own articles to contribute back to the ANN newspool.

I look forward to speaking with you, and in the words of our founding father, I embrace you, and every one of you.

Respectfully,

Ryan Zohar

Communications Coordinator, Civic Asgardia
www.asgardia.space

Administrator, Voices of Asgardia
www.voicesofasgardia.com

According to the plan, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket will be launched on Tuesday February 6 following frequent schedule changes. At the first launch of this rocket, Elon Musk’s fancy car, Tesla Roadster, will be transported to the orbit of sun as a symbolic cargo. Previously, this cargo was supposed to launch into Hohmann transfer orbit, on a path with intersection of Mars orbit. But due to the frequent changes in launch program, the appropriate time frame was missed and it has been decided that Elon Musk’s vehicle will be sent to an orbit to circle around the sun for an indefinite future.

This launch if the first of 5 planned launch for Falcon Heavy by 2020. What makes this launch special is the complexity of this mission for sending and recovering the original rocket and its two boosters. SpaceX has been working hard over the past years to implement space rocket retrieval technology. This technology can significantly reduce the cost of space travel. Simultaneous recovering of Falcon Heavy components can prove the technical superiority of this company. However Elon Musk has previously announced that SpaceX will not be convinced by Falcon Heavy and they have a bigger-ambitious project codenamed BFR. The rocket claimed that will have the ability to easily/economically transfer people between Earth to Earth, Earth to Moon and Earth to Mars destinations.

All the space enthusiasts are impatiently looking forward to the successful implementation of SpaceX ambitious plans. So if you are interested in space travels too, don’t miss the historical February 6th launch of Falcon Heavy. This launch is scheduled for 18:30-21:30 GMT.

A be-gaining with lot of hopes, dream and trust for our future generation. This is actually not for us. But for our next generation. We need to contribute our full effort to build Asgardia a beautiful place for living, work and research. Everyday we are suffocating from globalization, politics, environmental changes. I know these are common things of our human life. But everyday we are searching for peace of mind, peace living, a pollution free environment where at least our child can live beautifully. So to do so, let us give a great effort for our dream Asgardia. Be feel a proud citizen of Asgardia.

I am  humanitarian by  heart, by vocation, always working for the good of all and putting into practice the best projects that benefit our society. I believe that with the advancement of science and technology, we will build a better world for all.

Bildiğiniz gibi Parlamento seçimleri için adaylık başvuruları başlamıştır. Adaylar için 13 Seçim Bölgesi belirlenmiştir. Bu bölgelerden 12 tanesi, o bölgede konuşulan dile göre belirlenmiş ve 12 dil haricinde kalan diller için ise 13. Bölge belirlenmiştir.

Aşağıda detayları verilen Rehberi dikkatlice incelemeniz, adaylığınızla ya da oy verme işleminizle ilgili olarak, ileride doğabilecek sorunları ortadan kaldırmak adına önemlidir. Bir sorunuz olması durumunda, Forum sayfasında açılacak olan konu başlığı altında, bize bildirebilirsiniz.

Teşekkürler,

Şeref Kaplan

Asgardia UTL (NCM) (Gönüllü - Türkiye Ulusal Topluluk Lideri)

Kendinizi Parlamento Üyesi Olarak Aday Göstermek İçin Rehber

Birisinin temsil etmeyi amaçladığı seçim bölgelerinde fiziksel olarak ikamet ediyor olmasına gerek yoktur. Bununla birlikte, muhtemel milletvekillerinin temsil ettikleri bölgenin (3. Bölge - Türkçe) dilinde akıcı bir şekilde konuşabilmesi gerekmektedir. Adayın dil yeterliliği, Asgardia Merkezi Seçim Komitesi tarafından değerlendirilecektir.

Kendinizi Parlamento Üyeliğine aday göstermek için, programınızı açıkça belirttiğiniz kampanya profiliniz ve dönem boyunca başarmak istediğiniz hedefler için diğer adaylarla yarışmalısınız. Tüm kampanya bilgileri İngilizce olarak verilmelidir.

Kampanya profilleri, parlamento seçimlerinin sonuçlanmasından 30 gün öncesine kadar düzenleyebilirsiniz. Bir adayın kampanya profilini değiştirmesi durumunda, seçmenlere değişiklikler bildirilir ve bu durumda da oylarını farklı bir adaya verebilirler. Bu nedenle, lütfen yapacağınız çalışmayı ciddiyetle ve titizlikle yapınız.

Aday olmak isteyenlerin, ayrıca, aşağıdaki belgeleri de göndermesi gerekmektedir:

	Güncel Vesikalık   Fotoğraf (Mümkünse Biometrik)		Geçerli bir   Özgeçmiş
	Geçerli Bir Kimlik   Belgesi (Tarama Yapılarak)		İki adet Öneri

• Öneri konusu netleştiğinde, daha sonra sizlere bildirilecektir.

Parlamento üyesi olmak ve kendinizi aday göstermek için 18 yaşında veya daha büyük olmanız ve Asgardia Anayasasını kabul etmiş olmanız gerektiğini UNUTMAYIN .

Oy Kullanmak İçin Rehber

• Sadece seçim bölgelerinde ikamet eden seçmenlerin o bölgedeki bir Parlamento üyesi için oy kullanmasına izin verilir.
• Aynı seçimde sadece bir bölgede oy kullanabilirsiniz.
• Sadece bir aday için oy kullanabilirsiniz. Bir adayın kampanya profilini değiştirmesi durumunda, değişikliklerden haberdar olursunuz ve bu durumda oyunuzu farklı bir adaya vermek hakkına sahipsiniz.

Parlamento Adayları İçin Son Adım

Seçim bölgelerinde en fazla oy alan adaylar, Asgardia Merkezi Seçim Komitesi tarafından yapılan mülakat turuna geçmeye hak kazanmış olacak. Seçilmiş olan Parlamento Üyeleri, Asgardia Merkezi Seçim Komitesi tarafından görüşülüp, Devlet Başkanı tarafından onaylanana kadar göreve gelemeyecekler.