Overview
This document serves as an overview of public agreement to join an open group of citizens acting as a thinktank in "operation: Treasury." It will document my intentions, agreements and plans as a matter of live, public record. Regard the blog of Ross Cheeseright ...
Overview
This document serves as an overview of public agreement to join an open group of citizens acting as a thinktank in "operation: Treasury." It will document my intentions, agreements and plans as a matter of live, public record. Regard the blog of Ross Cheeseright for his call for membership of such a think-tank.
Introduction
After viewing Ross's post in the Facebook group Asgardia General (Official), I contacted him to discuss the plans revolving around the treasury. I asked to join and volunteered to build a slack channel and other social media communication channels for the group.
Social Media
I have already built the slack channel, it is only awaiting population. I have downladed Discord for future voice-based discourses. I plan to launch a Trello profile and Facebook group.
Financing Ideation
Prior to the meetings and first discussions, I plan to propose a set of ideas which could be researched towards more concrete and actionable financing goals. A rough draft of this proposal will follow.
Asgardian Financial Ideation (v.01)
Stage One - Launch initiative in March.
Small-Purchase Funding and Crowdfunding
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Attract Asgardian artists and illustrators to design small graphical representations of Asgardia.
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Sell these in a variety of online venues for print-on-demand merchandise.
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Especially: sell wearable products to build esprit de corps.
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Save gains.
Stage Two - Launch end of March/Beginning of April
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Crowdfund for single project from list:
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Sci-Fi Sci-Fi Anthology comprised of short stories about Asgardia’s future.
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Poetry anthology comprised of Asgardian poets celebrating the themes and dreams of Asgardia.
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Historical Documentary tracking and describing the founding of Asgardia.
Stage Three-Five
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Repeat Stage Two until all three projects are funded. Fund and complete one, then another, then another.
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Save Money From Sales
Aim for completion by summer’s end.
Stage Six
Use gains from projects to fund assembly of an engineering team. The engineering team will build - in conjunction with the National Bank, the Treasury and the Financial Ministry - a blockchain foundation for the SOLAR. Launching an ICO will provide a central funding for the first National Vault. The Nation will control the mining of SOLAR until it possesses an acceptable set of master nodes. SOLAR will be in part issued as payment for services, and partially as a tradeable product.
Stage Seven
Asgardia should then turn its attention to tasking the Engineers with working with the Treasury and the Ministry of Youth and Education to construct the online educational platform of Asgardia.
Stage Eight
Asgardia should sell usage rights to non-Asgardians either as an upfront service to the people of the world, or as an option for nations themselves to pay for via international agreements.
Stage Nine
Asgardia should use its educational system to vet and identify the educational promise of its citizenry. When citizens already possess degree-worthy education, the State should perform inter-work missions, getting jobs for its best citizens in fields of science and space engineering.
Stage Ten
The State will create a grant-giving block-chain system meant as a decentralized means of regulating the funding of new private enterprises. Representatives of the Treasury and the political leadership seek global investment in the Asgardian blockchain network to fund discreet private business grants. The grant system will select for ideal businesses proposed to work in businesses of interest to Asgardia such as - but not limited to - private space business.
Stage Eleven
Semi-Voluntary Taxation programs should begin to be initiated. The richest Asgardians should be asked to pay a small share of taxes. Meanwhile, an opt-in voluntary tax service is launched as a means for citizens to pay anything that they can to the state. A payment must be made, but to which public institution and by which denomination will be up to the user up to and including a fraction of a dollar.
Stage Twelve
Asgardia expands its online social services, assists in the rise of Asgardian business, builds public businesses. Asgardians are working and participating in global affairs.
Conclusion
I've got some work ahead of me. I have to complete the above document and create a more clear theory of work for achieving all the major goals. I plan to refer to Agile/Scrum and OKRs methods of team organization for chunking larger abstract problems into numerous small tasks carried out by members of teams. I also plan to engage in dialectics with the Think Tank in order to criticize the faults of the proposals, to add in other excellent ideas, and to adjust and redesign promising but incomplete ideas.
