Each epidemic and pandemic is accompanied by an infodemic. The infodemic during the COVID-19 pandemic was unprecedented. Accessing accurate information was difficult and misinformation harmed the pandemic response, the health of individuals, and trust in science, governments and societies. WHO built a community-centered information platform, the HIVE, to deliver on the vision of ensuring that all people everywhere have access to the right information, at the right time, in the right format in order to make decisions to protect their health.

The Hive Platform is a community-led space for trustworthy health information that facilitates synchronous and asynchronous collaborative working practices, supported by many features and functionalities, including community spaces, document repositories, documentation, instant chat, breakout groups, and video calls. The Hive Platform is one of WHO's priority innovations within the Health Emergencies Programme to deliver on the objective of ensuring people everywhere have timely access to trustworthy health information in a suitable format relevant to their context so that they can make decisions to protect their health and the health of their communities. The Hive platform is currently in the minimum viable product (MVP) version. We plan to scale up the platform to deliver on the vision of ensuring that all people everywhere have access to credible and trustworthy information.