June 2020
Building a digital democracy in a planetary pandemic
... world’s first ‘digital democracy’ has continued to function with comparatively little disruption. Asgardia’s Chair of Parliament, Lembit Öpik, reports on a period of sustained productivity for Asgardia’s Parliament. The next giant leap forward, says...
March 2019
Laying the foundations for cosmic habitation
...in January, and the start of 2019 also saw Parliament’s second digital sitting. Here, Asgardia’s Chair of Parliament, Lembit Öpik explains how a cross-section of people and countries of the world are working together to create a functioning political...
October 2021
Space in the movies – lessons for spacefarers
... be a peaceful odyssey, for I sincerely doubt we’d do as well as Hollywood suggests in a ‘war of the worlds’. About the author Lembit Öpik was elected to British Parliament in 1977 and served for 13 years. In 2001, he was elected Leader of the Welsh...
January 2020
A year of consolidation and expansion
... of Tallinn, Estonia. Asgardia’s Chair of Parliament, Lembit Öpik, reviews the well-attended sitting and ‘declares an ...of my grandfather, I laid the original foundation stone of the Öpik Conference Centre. It’s a fine construction but it is just a...
June 2019
Asgardia’s parliament – a year of progress
... democratic debating and voting functions at locations that could include space stations as far out as the Moon. Lembit Öpik reflects on the first year of Asgardia’s parliament and government. Stairways to heaven The level of success achieved by our...
January 2021
Developing the economy of a space nation
... Marcus Gronbach, Head of Administration Lena De Winne, Chair of the Justice Committee Salvos Mouzakitis, and Chairman of Parliament Lembit Öpik. Digital parliament While the format of our sitting changed, ‘the song remained the same’. The current...
