CO-FOUNDER
Yazidi Mugabe
Yazidi builds relationships across Uganda and Taiwan, identifying opportunities and connecting Ohm with prospective buyers, suppliers and project owners. Originally from Uganda, he is now based in Taiwan.
Back to OhmBuild for centuries.
VISION / TAIWAN EAST AFRICA
Build for centuries.
Not quarters.
We want the systems we help build to remain useful as technologies and communities change. Our starting point is practical: connect East Africa and Taiwan through trade, equipment and infrastructure that people can maintain.
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The people
behind Ohm.
Two co-founders based in Taiwan, bringing different backgrounds to a shared East Africa–Taiwan focus.
CO-FOUNDER
Arron Iveson
Arron focuses on commercial development, documentation and project planning, turning ideas and enquiries into clear requirements, proposals and next steps. Originally from Canada, he is now based in Taiwan.
A 500-YEAR PERSPECTIVE
What must remain true
for a system to endure 500 years?
We cannot know which technologies or institutions will exist centuries from now. But energy will obey physical laws, infrastructure will need maintenance, and each generation will inherit the systems built before it. Ohm uses these realities as design tests.
01 / WHAT IS REAL?
Begin with physical reality
Prices and contracts do not create energy, materials or food. Start with what is actually there: available energy, local materials, system losses and the limits of the environment.
Keep value tied to what can be delivered
Our long-term research asks whether verified surplus energy could support new forms of exchange. Any claim should remain connected to what is physically available, including the losses that occur in storage and delivery.
02 / WHAT SHOULD A SYSTEM ENABLE?
Build local capability
Energy and technology should help communities do more for themselves. That may mean cleaner water, better food processing, stronger local industry or more reliable services. Projects should also leave behind the skills needed to operate, maintain and repair what has been built.
Make power accountable
No organisation should become impossible to replace. Knowledge should be shared, decisions should be open to scrutiny, and there should be clear ways to challenge poor performance or replace a failing operator.
03 / WHAT SHOULD SURVIVE?
Care for what comes next
Ownership brings responsibility. Maintenance, environmental care and succession should be considered from the beginning, so that useful systems can be handed on in good condition.
Let the tools change
Today’s batteries, software and institutions will not last forever. The purpose should remain clear, while the methods are allowed to change as better tools, better evidence and better ways of working emerge.
Build, observe, correct.
Our early work on coffee, water and machinery is where we begin testing these ideas against costs, maintenance and local needs. Start small, measure honestly and change what does not work.
Build institutions that can change their tools without abandoning their purpose.
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Beginning with trade. Learning through infrastructure.
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