At the end of 2016, according to the Gregorian calendar, the creation of a new state was announced - Asgardia. 2017 was year 0001 by the Asgardian calendar, now we're in year 0003. Our community is growing, but many more on Earth have not learned that a new era has begun, where there are no borders, prejudices and the limit of dreams. We want to make both Earth and space more accessible to every asgardian. These are plans for decades. But what has been done over these 2 years, will never be erased from the pages of history. Already our children will be taught – for the first time humanity has truly United in such a historic moment.

I think almost every asgardian dreams of a common language for all people. And it's not English. For those who are not born into an English-speaking family or do not speak English fluently, it is often an offense why English has become a kind of international language. In the case where most of humanity is forced to learn a new language, it seems fair that everyone should learn a new language.
But there is another side of the coin. From my own experience, when a receptionist in an Asian country, for example, is not able to help with an elementary problem, because he does not speak at least a hundred English words, it is discouraging. When you are away from home, English is the great thing that paves the way for something new, the only thing that allows you to communicate and get to know each other better if you meet people from different part of the world.
They say they're working on it in Asgardia. I want to believe that one day all mankind will speak the same language. I can't even imagine how this can be done.

For anyone who wants to be a "citizen of the world", Asgardia is a great solution. We all unite and support this great undertaking. There is no Citizenship in Asgardia now. And it won't appear until signed several agreements with other countries, in other words, while Asgardia unrecognized. Yet today we are closer than ever to being able to move freely throughout the earth.
Сitizenship of Asgardia will be the gateway to a world of progress and development where rigid laws and order cannot change the world for the better.

Ever wondered why pearls are so expensive? Well, I certainly did and here’s what I found out. Pearls are a great example of the simple though irrational principle according to which we humans behave when it comes to prices. When a vendor places an item in the same row with other items of a certain category, we tend to estimate it accordingly.
The moral of all this — sometimes in order to market something one just needs to tell everyone that it’s precious even if the initial costs are very low and the prices are ridiculously high. And place that thing near those with comparable prices. It’s not a silver bullet though but just might work.
The prices are not intrinsic but are just what we people are ready to pay for stuff.
Take that, homo economicus!

After public tech demos, leaks and teases, a video teaser has been released for what appears to be the latest game in the Borderlands series.

Publisher 2K says more will be revealed at the Gearbox PAX East panel tomorrow, March 28 at 2pm EDT / 11am PDT at Borderlands.com for Gearbox’s PAX East livestream.

International Times:

March 28th - 11:00am PDT / 18:00pm GMT / 19:00pm CET / 20:00pm EET

March 29th – 2:00am GMT+8 / 3:00am JST/KST / 5:00am AEDT

I, for one, can't wait to see what this is all about! I will be bringing more details about it in full on my blog here and on the upcoming SciFi Sunday article!

Greetings Asgardians!

I am running for the position of Mayor of Toronto for Asgardia. It is my hope that I can help with representation for other Asgardia communities within the Golden Horseshoe so that we can build the southwestern Asgardia community so that other leaders can step up and take charge.

As part of the digital team I have already stepped up to help represent the Asgardia community in organizing the social media moderation team of Civic Asgardia and help organize online and offline events for Asgardians. I plan on leading by example with the Toronto community to show the world exactly what the Asgardia community is about and act as your representative to the administration of Asgardia.

My Plan As Mayor

Arrange monthly/bi-monthly meet and greets

Asgardia has been mostly a virtual nation up until now. Meeting in person will help bring us together to help  create a thriving Asgardia community. We will be able to make personal and business connections, give in person feedback and suggestions, hear news about Asgardia events and organize our own. It will also allow prospective Asgardians come and meet some of the people that make up Asgardia and help answer any questions they may have about it. Having a set place and date would allow new Asgardians to complete their in person verification as well as allow us to organize outings, educational seminars, and other such fun events.

Help support Asgardia business owners

As a business owner myself, I see the great potential of the global community reach that Asgardia can bring. It’s my aim to help business owners bring their services and/or products to our community so that we can help build the Asgardia economy and services that we can provide.

Organize and Develop Community Initiatives

One of the goals of my term as mayor is to successfully advocate for the next Parliamentary Assembly session to be held in Toronto and turn it into a multi day event in which Asgardians from all over the globe can attend. I would also like to start building the foundation for educational events and support systems in cooperation with local colleges and universities. Begin the creation of civic volunteering outreach programs and youth engagement programs.

In conclusion, I hope that you will vote for me so we can all build Asgardia together!

Hello Asgardia,

For those of you who may not know me, I am the Head of Community Affairs for Asgardia. I have been overseeing the social media and volunteer teams for Asgardia for the last year. Recently, I was given the mandate to help in the process of increasing Asgardia's image to the greater public and bring in fresh ideas and services to the Asgardia community. I wanted to update you on what has been and is still in progress to work towards these goals.

Firstly was to restructure parts of Civic Asgardia and the volunteer teams to help with the new direction. The first emphasis was to offer support administrative wise to the Central Election Committee. "Nikari" Steve Miller was loaned out as Elections Manager and volunteer teams were brought on board to help with the final weeks of the elections to offer logistical support. Seondly was to bring up email and social media response time to help public and community questions. Third was to begin applying best practices to the volunteer intake and training process in order to start better caplitalising on existing and new volunteer skillsets. Finally, several projects were planned on new online presences for Asgardia to bring information and new services to the nation as well as add greater communication and transparency of Asgardia actions.

One of the first projects that we worked on was the new Asgardia Space News website in which Asgardia endeavors to bring news about Space, Technology, Science, Engineering, and related topics of interest. This site will be going through some evolutions in the coming weeks, firstly to launch translations of the articles into the other twelve languages of Asgardia starting with Spanish and then to the others once the process is smoothed out and we have reliable and accurate translators for the other languages. We are looking at new avenues for content for the website and to slowly work away from syndication of news to producing our own original news stories. We hope that the community will visit this site, comment on articles and continue to give us feedback on the type of content that you would like to see on this site.

Another project that is nearing completion is a unified web contact form. This form will be attached the the new websites and will be adapted for use on the existing Asgardia.space website. This contact form is to allow the community and public easier access to support avenues so that we can help them better with any issues they have and answer their questions in a more timely manner.

Also, there was the creation of an opt-in monthly newsletter. This newsletter will allow us to communicate closer with the community and keep them 'in the loop' on Asgardia news and events.

Our biggest project, however, is still currently in progress and we hope to launch in part after the elections are over. It is a new Asgardia community site, a 'home' for Asgardia where Community and Business based services and functions will be offered. We will be launching an online roadmap for this site which will be publically viewable and updated regularly with progress of this site. To give you an example of the services that will be offered on this site are:

- The Asgardia Business Center. A multiphase project that will allow businesses of all sizes to connect with consumers, allow for start up and charity funding initiatives, job boards for businesses to recruit talent, mentorship opportunities, and incubator projects.

- Asgardia Community Activity and News. Listings for Professional Asgardia Associations, professional and interest guilds and clubs.

- National Community Center activities and news from Asgardia centers around the world.

- Online resource library for scientific papers and other open resource literature.

- All ages Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), a resource to offer education for all Asgardians no matter the age they may be. Eventual plan is to partner with accredited institutions in order to offer high level accredited courses.

- Asgardia Publication House which would offer online and hardcopy versions of written materials created by Asgardians.

- Asgardia merchandise store so that Asgardians can buy official Asgardia branded items to show their Asgardia pride.

- New and improved forums and online collaborative tools to allow Asgardians to communicate and work more closely together.

... and many more services that will help bring our community together and show the world what we have to offer as a nation.

I plan on having discussions with members of Parliament and with the Ministries about this site and how it can work in concert with the future laws and projects yet to come.

I would like to thank everyone who has already stepped up and offered their help and expertise in getting these endeavors off of the ground. We still have a lot of work ahead of us but I know that if we all (Volunteers, community members, MP's, Ministers) work together we can show the world that Asgardia is a leader to the stars and show that what we bring can benefit all of humankind.

Cheers!

Rebekah Berg
Head of Community Affairs
Asgardia

Hello Asgardia!

It's that time a year again! The time when writers everywhere start a monthly project in hopes of reaching a certain goal by the end of the month.

NANOWRIMO

Are you participating? I know I am! Let's hear from you on how your doing and support each other through this challenge! We've created a thread on the forums just for it!

https://asgardia.space/en/forum/forum/literature-101/topic/nanowrimo-2017-7982/

Hello Asgardia!

We'd like to let you know that uploads to the Asgardia-1 satellite are still open until October 1, 2017!

After that time, uploads will be restricted to the website only and uploads will not be transmitted the to satellite before launch. After, uploads to the satellite will be technically restrictive in terms of files sizes.

So if you haven't uploaded your file yet, do so today!

Kind regards,

Rebekah Berg

Head of Community Affairs

NGO Asgardia

Hello Asgardia,

As requested by the community, we have made the new temporary National Symbols available for download for citizens personal use on the Asgardia.space website. Asgardians may use the national symbols of Asgardia for non-commercial purposes only, such as introducing and promoting Asgardia, forum or Facebook avatars, etc.

https://asgardia.space/en/national-symbols/

Using any national symbols or elements of the Asgardia visual identity, including any use for commercial purposes, requires explicit written consent from Asgardia, and is otherwise prohibited.

Good day Asgardia!

Did you see the Asgardia Answers Live Stream held by Lena De Winne on August 19, 2017? Here is a link to the YouTube archive version of it:

Asgardia Answers Live Stream - August 19, 2017

Can access YouTube? We have transcriptions available in several different languages here:

English

Chinese

Greek

Hindi

Italian

Portuguese

Turkish

Don't see a language you want? Check the pinned post on Facebook for your country community page and request for them to do a translation!