Towards a Person-centred Maternal and Child Health Information System Framework for Sustained African Health Security Using Kenya As an ICT4D Case

Understanding the health information needs for maternal and child health resilience in the African context is limited, which affects interpretations of person-centred care towards sustained health security, particularly during and post-COVID-19 pandemic. This paper focuses on person-centred maternal and child health information needs to advance strong theoretical expertise in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for Development (ICT4D). This will foster development of ICT-enabled health information systems (HIS) and social protection delivery systems for improved health care delivery in Kenya. The aim of this pilot study is to propose a person-centred maternal and child health social design pathway for sustained African health security with Kenya as an ICT4D case, leveraging the expertise of a team of Global South and Global North ICT4D researchers, scholars, and practitioners. Co-design methodology and critical participatory action research were used to achieve the research objectives. We propose a Social Design Pathway for paternal and maternal communities in Kenya, which provides a tool for Kenya’s ICT4D for health care agenda to assess and validate the extent to which health information delivers person-centred needs.