About the conference
The Digital Legacy Conference explores society’s changing attitudes and behaviours in relation to death, end of life, mourning and the internet. We do this by inviting professions to share relevant areas of expertise for review and discussion.
Digital Legacy Conferences have taken place at UCL Partners (London), Siena College (New York), EAPC (Berlin), St Joseph’s Hospice (London), Michael Sobell Hospice (London) and EAPC (Rotterdam). In 2024 it will feature as part of PHPCI (Switzerland). If you would like to take place at your conference, congress, university, office or place of research in 2025 please do get in touch.
The Digital Legacy Association advise governments, different governmental bodies, national institutions and blue chip organisations about this important field. To visit the Digital Legacy Association website click here.
Why this is important
Society is spending more time online than ever before. Our conversations, photos, videos and assets that we purchase are increasingly moving away from from the physical form to different digital forms. These ‘Digital assets‘ can have a monitory and/or a sentimental value. Online organisations where these digital assets reside have been slow to support their clients and users. In some circumstances organisations are exploiting society’s lack of knowledge for their own financial gain. In other circumstances sentimental photos an videos of the deceased are lost forever due to lack of knowledge and pre-planning. It is important that professionals understand these changes and are able to provide suitable support for patients and their families.
The Digital Death Survey highlights that the importance society places importance their digital assets and their digital legacy. Place your curser over the chart shown to view the dataset.
If someone you care about dies how important is it for you to be able to view their social media profile?
Would you read digital asset and digital legacy planning material if it was made available?
