Daniel Mwesigwa

Hi there! I’m Daniel, a fifth-year PhD student in Information Science at Cornell University, lucky to be co-advised by Chris Csikszentmihalyi and Steve Jackson. I study the design and governance of sociotechnical AI systems, as well as the benefits and costs these systems produce. My dissertation examines the making of financial infrastructures alongside their policy implications on social and economic life in the global majority world, drawing on lenses from social informatics, machine learning, and anthropology. My research also centers moral values and their role in structuring expert and ordinary practice in different spheres of life. I’ve previously worked as a technology researcher and policy analyst, and am a research affiliate of CIPESA, a leading technology policy think tank in Africa. I was previously an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard from 2020 to 2024.