“Must you make an app?” A qualitative exploration of socio-technical challenges and opportunities for designing digital maternal and child health solutions in Soweto, South Africa

• Sonja Klingberg ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sonja.klingberg@wits.ac.za

  Affiliation SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9330-7102

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• Molebogeng Motlhatlhedi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Gugulethu Mabena,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Tebogo Mooki,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Nervo Verdezoto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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• Melissa Densmore,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Shane A. Norris,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations SAMRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Global Health Research Institute, School of Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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• on behalf of the CoMaCH network

  ¶Membership of the CoMaCH network is mentioned in the Acknowledgments.

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