Ellie Rennie is a Professor at RMIT University. Her research is examining permissionless systems and on-chain communities using ethnographic methods, including validator governance, contribution systems and infrastructures for the collective governance of knowledge. She has also worked extensively on the topic of digital inclusion in remote Indigenous communities, and currently serves on the Expert Panel for Australia's First Nations Digital Inclusion Advisory Group. Ellie is also a Research Director within the international research network Metagov.