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YOUNITE Impact Programme

United Kingdom · Solna · Local · See the United Kingdom profile

YOUNITE is a volunteering initiative launched by Telia Company that enables and encourages its employees to engage in activities and societal contributions connected to digitalization in their communities. By becoming active contributors, employees are given one day per year to

Details

Promoter: Telia Company — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Elderly people, Marginalised young people and children, People with disabilities, Unemployed and those facing social problems
People reached: 100000
Period: 2017-01-01
Keywords: Elderly, internet, skills, digital, inclusion, children, youth

Context

YOUNITE is an employee-volunteering initiative launched by Telia Company (2017) that gives staff one paid day per year to work on digitalization-related community activities ('quests'), such as teaching digital skills to children, supporting entrepreneurs, or introducing digital services to unconnected groups, as part of Telia's contribution to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Commonly funded by

Own resources / municipal budget

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 50% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

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Evidoria. YOUNITE Impact Programme. Persistent ID: a27fb608-6f97-4cc3-bd97-c0abf6195286.

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