Your Digital Legacy

[ UUID ] 82e680d1-0907-40af-9f7d-520a566579da

[ Session Name ] Your Digital Legacy [ Primary Space ] Privacy and Security [ Secondary Space ] Digital Inclusion

[ Submitter's Name ] Robert Friedman [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Permanent Legacy Foundation [ Submitter's GitHub ] omnignorant

What will happen in your session?

The digital world was designed to be small, fast and free – not permanent. While internet giants control the cloud and trade our privacy and security for convenience, who is preserving our digital legacies for the next generation, not just for profit? How do we establish safe, secure, and private data storage accessible to all people and reliable for all time? Throughout human history, the elite have relied on institutions like museums, universities and libraries to preserve their version of history, but doesn’t everyone deserve the chance to preserve their legacy? Let’s work together to put the power of a museum into everyone’s hands. Tomorrow’s history will be a digital legacy.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Participants will explore the how we define our digital selves and what steps we can take to preserve that digital identity for the future as a digital legacy. What is the most relevant data to preserve? How can we keep it safe and secure? How likely is it to persist into the future given our present digital habits? What do people do with that data in the future? How can we put our lives in historical context for future generations? The goal isn’t to consider how to preserve what’s in the public domain, but rather, how to help people keep their private data private until such a time they feel safe to release it into the public domain.

Time needed

60 mins