Technology is more than innovation and invention. It’s more than accessibility, efficiency and productivity. It is, for Marzanne Collins, CIO at Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator, the toolkit that allows for organisation and individual to drive change for social impact. For her, technology is the key that’s needed to unlock the potential in people’s lives and to transform their quality of life.

Collins’ love of technology has evolved alongside her career – from a student doing mathematical statistics at Nelson Mandela University, to a management consultant at Accenture, to completing her MBA at the IE Business School in Madrid, to where she is today. Harambee is a not-for-profit social enterprise that tackles the global youth unemployment challenge using data, partnerships and on-the-ground experience.