Uganda's maternal mortality ratio persists at 435/100,000 live births. Progress towards the country's target ratio of 131/100,000 live births, as derived from Millennium Development Goal five remains slow. Mobile phones usage by women and midwives has created opportunities for improving maternal and child healthcare. Despite the promise of mobile health on clinical outcomes, the adoption of mobile phones for maternal healthcare in Uganda remains low. The aim of this study was to develop a model for the adoption of mobile phones in maternal healthcare. Using a survey, the study identified factors for successful Adoption of Mobile Phones in Maternal Healthcare. Maternal healthcare professionals were used as respondents. The results indicate the adoption mobile phone in maternal healthcare should put into consideration the seven dimensions of: perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, facilitating conditions, social influence, perceived value, workflow practices and behavioural intention to use as factors for successful of adoption of mobile phones in maternal healthcare.

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Purpose This paper aims to present a conceptual framework of four knowledge co-creation processes in enterprise social media (ESM). From an interactionist perspective, the paper proposes a model on the role of ESM and enterprise social networks (ESNs) in facilitating knowledge co-creation processes. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper revisits existing literature on ESM, ESNs and social knowledge management to propose, hypothetically, the relationship between ESM, ESN and knowledge co-creation processes. Findings ESM enhances employee-to-employee interaction, which allows employees to co-create knowledge in a social context. Firstly, ESM affords employees to create ESNs for knowledge co-creation. Secondly, the structure of employee-to-employee interaction in ESNs will influence knowledge co-creation processes. Thirdly, ESNs provide the mechanism through which ESM affordances enable or constrain knowledge co-creation in the organisation. Practical implications ESM creates a social context that allows employees to share, apply and recreate or reproduce knowledge in the process of knowledge co-creation. The action possibilities of ESM perceived and actualised by employees will enable or constrain knowledge co-creation. Such influences are fuelled by the structural properties of employee relationships on ESM. Originality/value The paper elucidates the concept of knowledge co-creation based on a representation of user activities in ESM. This paper suggests that knowledge co-creation is a salient outcome of both individual-to-individual interactions on ESM and individual-to-ESM interactions enabled by ESM affordances.