The passion that comes with this writing relates to my background in Information Communications Technologies for Development (ICTD) and adult and community education. In adult education, we focus on extending learning opportunities to less privileged communities for better livelihoods. The marginalized, who are always the majority in many developing countries lack access to education opportunities and adult learning and education are among means to extend access to learning opportunities.

The complexity of my journey relates to the fact that I enter a field where there is less integration of modern technologies to support learning.  Besides, such communities are often semi or non-literate, yet, technologies are programmed in foreign languages they sometimes do not understand. While I claim the available possibilities technologies can offer to the less privileged, such spaces are equally challenged. It is only when we explore ways they embrace technology use, that we shall know how technologies can support their livelihoods.

Mobile technologies are among technologies they currently use. The mobile phones have proved to be the most accessible technologies for many in developing countries. This is why, in this writing, I am analysing ways mobile technologies support learning about food security among smallholder farmers.