In this Thing, you’ll explore the concept of a digital legacy, and what it means for you and the people you support.
Open Badge Information
Open Badge: SSSC 23 Things Digital – Thing 21: Digital Legacy
Introduction
Digital legacy is the digital data stored from your posts in social media, files on your computer or photos on your phone that form part of your digital identity that remain after you die. How do we control who has access to what after we die? What will happen to your social media accounts, your blog and any other online accounts you have?
Instructions
a) Watch the following video, produced by the Digital Legacy Association
b) Download the Digital Legacy Association’s Social Media Will Template (Excel file) and complete one for yourself. If you can’t access the Excel file, you can preview it at the Digital Legacy Association website
c) Explore at least one guide from each of three categories below
Hardware / device guides
Social media guides
Other
Online bank accounts and subscriptions
d) Blog
Write a blog post of at least 100 words reflecting on your thoughts about your own digital legacy and how you might advise the people you support or will support in future. If your organisation currently advises the people you support on managing their digital legacy, you should make reference to this.
Related article on BBC News from August 2017
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-40935790