This document discusses the importance of planning for what happens to a person's digital assets after they pass away. It notes that with more assets now existing online rather than physically, like emails, social media, photos and videos, a new way is needed to handle the distribution of digital assets when writing a will. The document explores some of the challenges around people's perceptions of digital assets and inheritance, as well as legal issues concerning terms of service and data rights that must be addressed to properly distribute digital estates to beneficiaries.

1. Ian Pringle
A digital will needs a digital way

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6. http://www.techiedog.com/blog/2005/02/
digital-will.html
http://www.techiedog.com/blog/2005/04/more-
thoughts-on-death-and-digital.html

7. Traditional Assets
๏ Correspondence
๏ Legal documents
๏ Publications
๏ Photographs
๏ Home movies

8. Importance of Assets
๏ Historians
๏ Genealogists
๏ Scientists
๏ Legislature
๏ Writers

9. Digital Assets
๏ Email
๏ IM History
๏ SN pages
๏ Blogs
๏ Photos
๏ Video
๏ .....

10. Digital Assets & Inheritance
๏ Perceptions
๏ Legal/Rights
๏ Mechanisms

13. Personal/Private

14. Personal/Private

15. Individual as a ...
๏ Generator
๏ Collector
๏ Curator

16. Social

17. Social

18. Individual as a ...
๏ Sharer
๏ Contributer
๏ Curator

19. Public

20. Public

21. Individual as a ...
๏ Publisher
๏ Voice of authority

22. Perceptions
๏ Persistence assumptions
๏ Understanding of assets and wider value

23. Legal
๏ T&Cs
๏ Rights
๏ Data protection

24. Mechanisms
๏ Nominated ‘digital next of kin’
๏ Third party Key-holder
๏ Aspect of federated ID

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