Just to let everyone know.  I do not prolifically post on social media.  Personally I believe that commenting for the sake of having a comment is not very constructive.  If I do not have anything constructive to add to the discussion I do not post.  When I do I take part in the conversation.  I hope you understand.

Just as a bit of background I have been a member of Asgardia from when it was first announced.  I then volunteered at an event in Montreal where I had the pleasure of meeting some of the Officials such as Ms Lena De Winne and Dr Jakhu.  I was very honored when they reached out to me and asked me to be on the independent voting commission to verify the votes on the Constitution.   Some of you may have seen some of my camera work on the Facebook live stream of that event.... it was the shaky part.  :)

I decided to start running at this time because I have been watching the discussions and seeing many people drop out and the conversations becoming less and less positive.  As someone who believes strongly in what Asgardia is trying to achieve I took a moment to consider hard the responsibility I would be stepping up for.  After much conversation with my family I decided to put put my name in to run to become a member of Parliament.

Asgardia has a long and hard road ahead of it. I believe that if we all roll up our sleeves and work together as a team to put the effort in we can build the Asgardia that the world needs.  We need to be realistic and positive, making progress towards our Asgardia goals.

I hope you will vote for me and we will continue on this journey together.

Candidate Nissim 1 makes an interesting argument against fishing for votes.

While canvassing is a necessary democratic method - we need to campaign, to start conversations and to ask people to vote for us. But there's a degree to which if you are just begging for votes, you are being unethical.

The main ones are: Vote for me and I'll vote for you, or just, vote for me - but I have no plan.

The first one is problematic because it makes this election a zero-sum game. Either "I'll vote for you if you vote for me" or "I won't vote for you" means the only votes you get and exchanged for no benefit.

Let's be clear here: the only ethical way to vote, is to vote for an inspiring candidate.

So here's the deal... If you read through my profile and my writings and you aren't inspired - don't vote for me! And if you like me and find me inspiring, or if you believe I can do a duty - vote for me!

Meanwhile, I make the same promise. I will vote for you if you inspire me to. But if you don't, I will not give you a vote for a vote.

We don't need that kind of political gaming.

We need governors, not gamers.

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

• Attract Asgardian artists and illustrators to design small graphical representations of Asgardia.
• Sell these in a variety of online venues for print-on-demand merchandise.
• Especially: sell wearable products to build esprit de corps.
• Save gains.
  
  

Stage Two - Launch end of March/Beginning of April

• Crowdfund for single project from list:
  • Sci-Fi Sci-Fi Anthology comprised of short stories about Asgardia’s future.
  • Poetry anthology comprised of Asgardian poets celebrating the themes and dreams of Asgardia.
  • Historical Documentary tracking and describing the founding of Asgardia.

Stage Three-Five

• Repeat Stage Two until all three projects are funded. Fund and complete one, then another, then another.
• 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.

Overview
This document serves to outline two concepts. One is a suggestion for a national educational service which tracks and assists the progress of citizen self-education. This includes a model for attracting and financing educators. The social service demonstrates a kind of model which could be replicated for any service Asgardia has the power to provide through the internet. But this model for social service itself requires initial funding to lift off the ground. Fortunately, a work-backed blockchain network might solve this problem of funding. This three-stage plan is proposed to lead to a robust and unique SOLAR currency traded internationally and earned by social service providers.

Decentralized Education on the Blockchain

Asgardia should make active use of blockchain technology and crowdfunding in order to build a fledgling educational matrix for citizens.

The internet is filled with incredible educational content. But what is generally lacking is a structure around that which guides students forward and assists them with their self-directed education. For example, a person can easily sample the enormous scientific lecture listing produced by MIT called their “open courseware”. Or if one searches carefully, there are over 20 lectures from many universities about philosophy. Further education is distributed through many sources - The Great Courses, Coursera, EduX, Khan Academy and many others.

What Asgardia should do is first create a platform which helps citizens navigate the complex set of what’s available. Secondly, this platform should track progress and associate educational process with a citizen’s profile. Finally, Asgardia should do this by constructing smart contract profiles for citizens in a blockchain. Proofs of viewing become the foundation for an appearance of expertise.

In order to expand the usefulness of the service, Asgardia should also provide profiles and a marketplace to Asgardian educators. These educators should be rewarded a cryptocurrency denomination for doing some essential work. These may include:

- Making new educational content native to the Asgardian educational platform.
- Creating formal tests for philosophy and science.
- Working en-masse to create a suite of Asgardian textbooks by way of massively decentralized work structures.

- Ranking and reviewing the content produced by Asgardian educators honestly and critically.

But I’m getting ahead of our abilities. How do we have national services without the funding to pay for national services? Fortunately I have an idea for that: we must build a Work-Backed Blockchain (WBB) Network.

Work-Backed Blockchain Network
Asgardia needs to frame its social services under a network of Blockchains with secondary cryptocurrencies. These will form the basis for creating the value of the SOLAR. We do this first by drafting whitepaper proposals for the first suite of social services, focusing on services which can be transmitted over the internet such as the aforementioned educational service. Then we launch ICOs for the services. The revenue from the ICO becomes the initial vault of value for the SOLAR. Future tokens rewarded for work by any service’s blockchain is traded to the government in exchange for SOLAR. The SOLAR’s ongoing value is determined by the volume of high-value transactions to the government. Workers whose reputations produce higher quantities of secondary tokens provide greater value to the SOLAR.

In this model, each service has its own cryptocurrency, its own blockchain and its own smart contract reputation service tracking the fitness of providers and services which rewards useful participation. These might come in the form of Colony (colony.io) teams or Bitnation (tse.bitnation.co) holons or through some other technology at first, but eventually will be proprietary Asgardian blockchain software structures. The real value will be found once those services are built.

Stage One - Funding and the Catch 22 Paradox

But how do we even fund the initial steps of this project? Aren’t we running into a catch 22 here? We are losing funding and we need a strategy to get our own funding.

We need to create the plan for each service in a separate whitepaper. Then for each service we must launch an ICO - an initial coin offering. The very first ICO must be for the SOLAR itself. We attract investors to purchase initial tokens at a fixed rate. We use the funds gained by the ICOs and invest into the treasury of the SOLAR. By having a primary currency backed by a fixed store of value, we can create a first social service: the governments Blockchain Engineering Service as a member of the Ministry of Science.

Stage Two - Building the Thing

This engineering wing will construct the economic model first by creating an interface for Asgardia with the Colony and Bitnation services to fund their own work. Colony will provide the initial workforce platform which allows our engineers to do the work of building the other social services, such as the educational service mentioned above. The tokens these Engineers receive will be the first proof-of-works traded for the Asgardian primary currency.

Workers will exchange their proof-of-work tokens to the state for equal parts SOLAR, and those proof-of-work tokens will be stored in a treasury vault as the financial backing of the SOLAR. This token will be produced such that most of the tokens are sold internationally, or loaned by the government, or traded for proof of work.

Stage Three - The Birth of an Internationally Traded National Currency

Hopefully by then, there has been enough trading of Asgardian currencies to provide objective value to workers. The SOLAR will be appraised by the market due to having a foundational basket of other kinds of value, both proof-of-work and traditional investment. This will attract Asgardian educators and other potential social workers to our platforms. Providing service will produce proof-of-work tokens, and they will be traded to the government to increase the backing of the Asgardian primary currency. Over time the SOLAR will grow to become a robust and powerful currency - if we use the momentum of our social services to inspire the birth of Asgardian space, science, produce and art industries which trade in SOLAR.

At its core, however, the world’s nations will also see the value in the rising SOLAR. This will be primarily because of relieving some of their social burdens by providing decentralized online services for people. As our value to the nations of the world grows, so too will their interest in us. And that will only spiral around towards greater investments in our One Nation and One People.

Conclusion

I hope this has been a convincing idea for a model of future Asgardian public service and funding. This is obviously an incomplete idea and can be improved greatly. Version of this kind of reasoning could be applied to creating an Asgardian crowdfunding alternative to taxation. People could regularly donate as a voluntary tax funds to any number of Asgardian social services, constantly providing additional short-term value to the currencies traded from service to employee, and from employee to nation, and finally from nation to service providers. These ideas can be expanded in any direction - but not without the committed work of an Asgardian government and people!

I am a 34 year old marketing professional, also with over 17 years in diplomacy working with various civil society arms of the United Nations. I bring quite a wealth of experience in both Marketing, and foreign Policy, as well as in Negotiations and Policy writing.

I have a keen interest in working with the Ministry of  Foreign Affairs, it is my belief that my hybrid experience  in International Relations and Marketing and Public Relations will be ideal for ensuring our success in gaining the correct connections between Earth Nations and International Bodies that will be needed for our nation's success.

My promise; either as an elected official, or government employee working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is to ensure that our nation has its rightful place among the over 200 nations of Earth, and that we lead by example with our new home. We must form the correct global partnerships that can ensure we remain sustainable, and viable so that we can expand quickly, correctly and fairly to all.

Recently I addressed the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations on the importance of Youth Development for Sustainability with a focus on the African Nations, (see here: http://imsr.me/ARDNUNYouthSpeech )  it was a resounding success and I was able to ensure that young people have a roll in decision making when it comes to the future of the earth and the UN sustainable development goals,. I believe these connections and  my  combination of skills will be a great asset to Asgardia as we aim to getting to the stars!  For more about me you can visit my website www.imsroyer.com and my linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/imsroyer/

#CosmicVisionNews #CVN #ROOOFCONFLICT – January 19, 2018 – Broadcast And Show Transcript With Links : http://www.cosmicvisionnews.com/item/305

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PLEASE CONSIDER VOTING FOR MY PLATFORM AND SUPPORTING ME AS A CANDIDATE TO REPRESENT ASGARDIA.

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#CosmicVisionNews #CVN – January 5, 2018 – Broadcast And Show Transcript With Links : http://www.cosmicvisionnews.com/item/303

I invite Asgardians to consider reviewing my profile/qualifications and also my campaign. To my knowledge, I am so far the only political canadidate who has offered an accountable, step-by-step, visionary plan for the community, and my background takes into considerations things that I am quite certain most have not thought about, as far as stepping into a new, self-sustaining community - let alone a future community in space!  There is much to consider!  I ask for your vote, so I can bring the wisdom I have gained from the work and service I have done for humanity and the planet.

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#CosmicVisionNews #CVN  – December 29, 2017 – Show Transcript With Links  : http://www.cosmicvisionnews.com/item/302

Okay, so i posted a blog a few days ago to Asgaurdia only. Not sharing it with fb or other social medias. Now i am trying to test the activity of the community, because it has received literally no attention in any ways. I know i am not the most popular or impressive  person, but damn no one? I found that a little hard to believe so i am asking that anyone who reads this please leave some notification that there is infact activity on the asgardia blog. Otherwise i will assume the blog is inactive/ not visible.

Greetings to all!  I would like to invite Asgardians to consider my platform for Asgardian parliament.  It is my belief that I have prepared and offered something that very few people running for any parliament have done - and this is to offer an actual plan with steps that are able to be documented and held accountable to.  My background brings not only a unique perspective, but unique solutions, based on shifts that are now happening all around our planet at this time.
Your support of my candidacy is kindly appreciated, and if you resonate with my platform, I would be grateful for your taking a moment of your precious time to share it with others!

In peace,   Geoffrey

08DEC17 # CosmicVisionNews # CVN broadcast and transcript with links: http://www. cosmicvisionnews.com/item/299

Hello all. This is my first "blog" to the people of Asgaurdia and I hope this message can bring fuel to the movement

My name is Eli. I am 22 years of age and I have dreamed of leaving this planet behind since I was 9. My joy when I first found Asgaurdia was profound, as I read about the project and those working behind it I felt a sense of pride in humanity that I thought i had lost during the rise of socialized media. The idea that a group of people like myself, found across the globe, were working together was so foreign that I honestly couldn't believe it.

As it stand right now, I could not be more certain that I have placed my faith appropriately.


Hmm. Now i suppose i do have some criticisms that i will keep relatively light. The Asgardian media is beginning to mimic the dis honesty of social media, Using unrealistic images or titles in order to magnifies the achievements of our projects. Also, the populace itself seems to almost expect too much, Wanting to sit by and wait for everyone else to finish the project.

I have taken some small amount of time to contemplate how to remedy some of these issues. We are so spread out, so divided that we couldn't possibly properly communicate or share resources. We must come together, on earth. Territory would be extremely difficult to claim on any land mass, of course, so the solution appears at sea. Across the internet recently i have seen the development of man made floating islands that could be maintained and populated by a working population with relative ease.

These floating islands would also be capable of supplying the populace with hydroponic foods, and automated fish farms for supple nutrient. solar, wave and wind power generation and would make a brilliant testing site for long term, moderate population in an enclosed environment. This would allow us to test structural components that would be used in orbit, as well as having a reliable method of resupplying an extraterrestrial population.