Daniel Mwesigwa

Daniel Mwesigwa is a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell University. He broadly studies the design and governance of sociotechnical AI systems, as well as the benefits and costs that these systems produce. Using lens from social informatics, ML, and anthropology, he studies financial infrastructures in the global majority world, centering the informal practices that inform commercial design and adoption of new technologies in the making of digital credit relations. His research centers moral values and their role in structuring expert and ordinary life in different social spaces and spheres of practice. Daniel has previously worked as a technology researcher and policy analyst. He is a research affiliate of CIPESA, a leading technology policy think tank in Africa and was an affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard from 2020 to 2024.

Publications

Conferences

CSCW  ’26
To Tango or to Disentangle? Making Ethnography Public in the Digital Age
Daniel Mwesigwa, Cyan DeVeaux, Palashi Vaghela
CHI  ’26
Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya
Daniel Mwesigwa, Steven J. Jackson, Christopher Csikszentmihalyi

Workshop & Short Papers

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