Situated knowledges claims about the interferences of disability, gender, and information communication technologies.

This paper examines 'mobile health' or 'mHealth' programs that are using mobile phones to improve maternal health in the developing world. Whereas its implementers present mobile health as a neutral, universal, accessible and 'smart' empowering technology for women, we will question this empowering effect and analyze how the device transforms gender inequalities on the ground. To this end, we will use empirical data collected on a global mHealth program deployed in Ghana and India. Informed by gender, postcolonial, science and technology studies, we offer a critical analysis of these new devices using mobile phones to 'empower' women in the Global South. This multisite analysis highlights the gender gap and male domination in accessing mobile phones in rural India and Ghana. It also reveals how mHealth devices can negate the multifactorial dimension of gender and health inequalities, how these global assemblages are renegotiating local power relations and enhancing gender imbalance and health disparities for women in these villages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]