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Ellie Rennie

Ellie Rennie

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Oct 23, 2025

KOI and the Unicorn

A conversation inspired by a wall-hanging.

KOI and the Unicorn

Ellie Rennie

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Sep 22, 2025

Building the Loop: The Role of Ethnography in Artificial Organisational Intelligence

Building the Loop: The Role of Ethnography in Artificial Organisational Intelligence

Ellie Rennie

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Sep 11, 2025

Building Feedback Loops for Organisational Intelligence: Telescope and KOI in action

This article describes the evolution of the Telescope bot through the KOI protocol.

The digram shows circles with lines connecting them. The circles in the centre of the diagram are named as “Ellie’s vault”, “Brooke’s vault”, “Kelsie’s vault”. To the left are “Metagov Telescope” and “BlockScience Telescope”. To the right is an “Obsidian Manager” and to the top right is “BlockScience Slack”. The lines connecting them show the flow of knowledge objects between these actors in a KOI network.

Ellie Rennie

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Jul 6, 2024

What is a good DAO (and how do we know)?

The following is a transcript of my talk at DAWO24 in Winterthur, Switzerland, on 4 July 2024.

What is a good DAO (and how do we know)?

Ellie Rennie

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May 7, 2024

Flume

A Sulfur Punk story

Flume

Ellie Rennie

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Apr 23, 2024

KOI-Pond: The creation of a synthetic deme

KOI-Pond: The creation of a synthetic deme

Ellie Rennie

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Apr 23, 2024

Regen contribution systems and variable property rights

A regen-inspired type of property right that has variable security of title, conditional upon outcomes observed via a contribution system

Regen contribution systems and variable property rights

Ellie Rennie

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Apr 8, 2024

Machine politics: The cultural science of permissionless systems

First draft of an essay (for feedback) in which I argue that machine culture may need protection from human politics.

Ellie Rennie

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Sep 28, 2023

On Governators

The following is a brain-dump ahead of a Metagov Govbase call (7am 29 Sep 2023 AEST) in which we will discuss the concept of governators.

On Governators

Ellie Rennie

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Sep 17, 2023

An ethnography of SourceCred’s CredSperiment

My full ethnography of SourceCred’s CredSperiment is now on SSRN. Here’s a short summary of what I learnt.

An image of an ancient hydraulic water system in Shushtar, Iran. The picture shows stone constructions with water flowing into a central dam.

Ellie Rennie

Ellie Rennie

Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne. Australian Research Council Future Fellow 2020–2025: “Cooperation Through Code” (FT190100372) Twitter: @elinorrennie

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