Digital Legacy Prototype

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What Is Digital Legacy?

The prototype distinguishes between digital legacy and digital assets, inviting learners to think beyond ownership and toward meaning, memory, and continuing presence.

Working distinction

Digital assets are the accounts, files, media, and online property a person leaves behind.

Digital legacy is the significance attached to those traces: what they mean, who they reach, and how they live on.

In practice, the two overlap. A photo library may be an asset, but it is also part of how memory, identity, and family narrative continue after death.