Meet the Infodemic Assistant. Your new colleague on every DCE dashboard
A new cVDPV2 outbreak is confirmed. You open your dashboard, type a question in plain language, and within seconds get a structured summary of every misinformation narrative already circulating online — across 200+ platforms, in 187 languages. No filters to configure. No pivot tables to build. No analyst to brief you first.
You keep going. Show me the trend. Who’s driving it? Draft prebunking messages. Now put it all in a brief I can send to the country office. Ten minutes later, you have a ready-to-share risk brief with trend analysis, audience breakdown, and tailored response messages — built from live data and grounded in DCE’s own guidelines.
This is the Infodemic Assistant. A dedicated AI agent that lives inside DCE’s social listening dashboards on Talkwalker. It draws on two years of monitoring data, ten years of SBC literature, and real-time intelligence from every corner of the internet — and makes all of it available through a simple conversation.
When an outbreak hits
Speed is everything in the first hours. The Infodemic Assistant lets you scan for circulating misinformation the moment an outbreak is confirmed, compare patterns with previous outbreaks in the region, generate talking points for community mobilizer briefings, and produce a risk alert for leadership — all before the first campaign round begins.
No dashboard expertise is needed. Whether you’re a national SBC specialist, a country office coordinator, or a regional focal point, you open the chat, ask your question, and get an answer in plain language. The Assistant does the filtering, the cross-referencing, and the formatting. You make the decisions.
This is not ChatGPT – It’s Built Specifically for DCE, by DCE
The Infodemic Assistant is not a general-purpose chatbot. It is trained specifically on DCE’s knowledge base: operational guidelines, SOPs, risk communication protocols, Polio Pulse insights, ten years of SBC literature from Poliokit, UNICEF style guides, two years of social listening data, and real-time monitoring feeds. When it recommends a prebunking message or flags a risk narrative, it draws on the same evidence and frameworks your team already uses.
It also connects to live data. The answers it gives are not generic — they reflect what is happening right now, in your country, on your platforms.
The AI engine behind the Assistant
The Infodemic Assistant is the visible tip of a much larger AI ecosystem — one DCE has been building for two years, powering everything from multilingual social listening to campaign design.
Read how DCE listens to and makes sense of the conversation →
and how it monitors the AI assistants and turns insight into action →
200+ platforms | 187 languages | 1–2 min latency | 24/7 available | $0 for polio countries |
How to get it
If you have a DCE dashboard in Talkwalker, you already have it. Look for the chat icon in the bottom-right corner of any dashboard view.
If your country office doesn’t have a dashboard yet, the full package — dashboard, Infodemic Assistant, custom queries, and training — is available at no cost to all polio outbreak, endemic, and surveillance countries. Contact [email protected] to get started.
From detection to response — in minutes, not days.
The Infodemic Assistant makes AI-powered immunization intelligence accessible to anyone on the polio programme — regardless of digital literacy, language, or location. Try it today on your DCE dashboard.