The Digital Community Engagement Newsletter brings country offices, partners and polio SBC practitioners a monthly read on what actually works in digital community engagement: field stories, campaign results, real-time misinformation trends from Polio Pulse, and the tools you can put to use.
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September 2026
The Circle Goes Alway-On
How the Circle of Protection became DCE's first always-on campaigns in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan: campaigns that stay online all year, localised with country teams and built to test what moves caregivers. Features uInfluence at WAFCON and the latest Polio Pulse trends.
June 2026
Beyond Chatbots: An End-to-End System for Digital Community Engagement
How AI now powers the full DCE cycle — detecting narratives, testing content and responding — and how DCE monitors what ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok themselves tell people about vaccines. Features the Infodemic Assistant and the latest Polio Pulse trends.
April 2026
Listening as One System: Connecting Online and Offline Voices
Why rumors rarely live in one place, and how DCE connects digital and community-level listening in real time. Inside: Tanzania's 24-hour community-listening deployment, Pakistan's Circle of Protection, Afghanistan's misinformation taskforce, and a 505-advocate survey across 38 countries.
January 2026
Trust Is Our Technology: Scaling Digital Community Engagement in 2026
The 2025 year in review and the road ahead: 175.8M people reached, 80K+ uInfluencers, and the lesson that trust in local voices — not technology alone — is our strongest protection. Includes 10 lessons from digital campaigns and 2025's top misinformation trends.
September 2025
From Intelligence to Impact
The launch of Polio Pulse at UNGA and how real-time monitoring proved itself in Papua New Guinea's outbreak response — reaching 1.33M people, nearly four times the target. Plus a curated set of free AI courses for development professionals.
August 2025
Behind the Clicks: What It Really Takes to Make Digital Content Change Behaviour
A behind-the-scenes look at how DCE turns online moments into real change — catching misinformation early and shaping creative that lands in the right feed. Includes real campaign ads and August's narratives to watch on Polio Pulse.
July 2025
Trust · Learn · Adapt. Repeat!
How listening before intervening reshaped campaigns — a full evaluation of Pakistan's April–May push (100M+ impressions) and Lake Chad Basin results across Cameroon, CAR, Chad and Niger. Plus what's next in Somalia, Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea.
June 2025
Communities in the Lead: Human-Centered, Community-First
How local leadership shapes digital action: Afghanistan's co-designed DCE strategy, early outbreak-response listening in Papua New Guinea, and a World Immunization Week wave led by uInfluence volunteers across 198 countries.
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