Elizabeth Obode

Aspiring Diplomat|
Strategy consultant - energy, industry

Founder: @theeguardiansk - an NGO supporting security personnel

Building: @Ikamintech Vigil360 app

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@dimension_forge @JoshuaFayele @tosinolaseinde Thank you

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@dimension_forge @JoshuaFayele @tosinolaseinde Hi. What email address can I reach you on?
Thank you

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@KatsinaKK @asemota Exact thought that came to mind. Lindy-proof

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@Tolu__Grey Thank you for drawing my attention to it ❤️

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@amibiaka You're very right. Udu Technologies is doing compute for Africa.

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@_successakanbi As in ehn. Similarly, I couldn't find a lab/computational set-up to do the experiments I needed - basically had to transfer intellectual property for access to facilities.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

In a new major report, the World Bank conceded that its decades-long war on industrial policy was wrong, saying its old advice “has not aged well — it has the practical value of a floppy disk today.”

But this is not an intellectual awakening.

The World Bank's doctrine shifted because the means through which Western nations can maintain their dominance shifted — not because economists suddenly discovered new evidence.

The world’s wealthiest nations are now pursuing industrial policy so openly that it can no longer be denied to the rest of the world.

When the geopolitical winds shift, so does the ideology of institutions where wealthy nations' interests are deeply entrenched.

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@PriinceAdeniyii This is what we're trying to do at The Guardians' Keeper @theeguardiansK. We started with the police, but the aspiration is to extend kindness to all uniformed personnel serving the country. Even protectors need help 😔

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@asemota 😟 May his soul rest in peace 🙏

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@asemota @ImadeIyamu 😔

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@eldivine Reminds me of the lines of a song: "somedays you're on top of the world and somedays you're the crowd..."

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@ctindale @ChrisPreen This slow realization that for most intent and purposes, we live in a material world. Revenge of the atom :)
Very nice

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

Yes!
The skeletal frame for what we call 'tech' (software, AI etc) is literal electrons coursing through copper wires, aka electricity, different minerals, concrete and plastic. To ignore the skeleton hoping the body stands, is to.hope in vain

[🇦🇺Craig Tindale @ctindale]

And part of changing a culture is knowing who your builders actually are.

Cultures don’t just drift. They reward what they recognise. Right now we celebrate people who capture attention, optimise interfaces, and scale platforms. We rarely name, fund, or elevate the people working on metallurgy, materials, energy, and processing, even though those are the systems that keep societies alive. So we do have those names but we need to lift them onto our shoulders

The modern industrialists exist. They’re just invisible in a culture that confuses financial success with civilisational value. Until we can point to them, talk about them, and treat them as central rather than peripheral, nothing structural changes until we have got a Rand narrative embedded in our culture .

You fix it by changing who the culture notices and who capital backs.

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

Very interesting read.
It's slightly funny to see policy folks get on board the fundamental truth you'd learn in physics 101, that for most intents and purposes, it is a material world.

[🇦🇺Craig Tindale @ctindale]

https://t.co/vWLN07swYq

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@kynetics @asemota I have a degree in petroleum engineering and worked as a field engineer.

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@nkereuwxm @BESERKIRE Start with The Way of Kings. I love that book.

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@docneto Yes! This world, is for most intents and purposes, a material world. Economic models/policies that don't situate within the material, miss the mark.

[Elizabeth Obode @elizabethobode]

@AdepojuWilliam4 I'd like to know more. Are you open to a chat?
Thank you