Setting Global Standards for Digital Estate Continuity
The Digital Estate Planning Institute (DEPI) develops global standards, certifications, and governance frameworks that ensure digital assets can be protected, transferred, and preserved across generations.
Advancing Trust, Continuity, and Digital Stewardship
DEPI is the global standards body for digital estate continuity. We provide frameworks, research, certifications, and accreditation programs that help individuals, families, platforms, and institutions manage digital assets with clarity, security, and long-term governance.
Standards and Governance
Global technical and procedural standards for digital estate continuity.
Certification Programs
Training and credentialing for advisors, planners, and continuity professionals.
Platform Accreditation
Independent validation of compliance with DEPI Standard v1.0.
DEPI Standard v1.0
DEPI Standard v1.0 defines the core principles, requirements, and controls for digital estate continuity. It provides a unified framework for asset mapping, access governance, security practices, transfer-of-death protocols, beneficiary design, emergency access, long-term preservation, and interoperability across platforms and jurisdictions.
Continuity Framework
How digital assets are identified, modeled, categorized, and prepared for lifecycle planning.
Governance & Access
Controls for authorized access, delegation, emergency access, and transfer-of-death procedures.
Security & Integrity
Standards for encryption, storage, credential handling, and continuity-readiness assessments.
Interoperability
Guidelines for platforms, custodians, and systems to support a unified continuity ecosystem.
Certification Programs
DEPI certifications recognize professionals who demonstrate mastery in digital estate planning, continuity readiness, governance controls, and platform-level best practices. DEPI-certified practitioners play a critical role in advancing trust, stewardship, and responsible digital estate management.
CDEP — Certified Digital Estate Planner
Focus: Digital estate planning, client frameworks, asset mapping, risk analysis, continuity strategies.
DAC — Digital Asset Custodian
Focus: Secure storage, governance, credential handling, emergency access protocols, continuity-readiness.
DCP — Digital Continuity Professional
Focus: Enterprise continuity mapping, operational resilience, transfer-of-death procedures, interoperability design.
Platform Accreditation
DEPI Accreditation validates platforms, services, and technologies against a rigorous standards framework. It signals trust, transparency, and continuity-readiness across the digital asset ecosystem.
Continuity Readiness
Assessment of a platform’s ability to support access governance, emergency access, and transfer-of-death workflows.
Security & Governance
Evaluation of credential handling, storage integrity, delegation controls, and beneficiary access mechanisms.
Interoperability
Alignment with DEPI’s standards for data exchange, cross-platform portability, and long-term digital preservation.
Digital Policy Institute
DEPI’s research arm drives global policy discussions, stakeholder guidance, and regulatory collaboration. DPI explores the intersection of digital identity, estate rights, cross-border governance, cybersecurity, and long-term digital preservation.
Policy Research
Deep analysis of emerging legal, regulatory, and governance issues affecting digital estates.
Continuity & Rights Framework
Development of cross-border models for digital inheritance, identity continuity, and beneficiary rights.
Global Collaboration
Partnership work with institutions, regulators, platforms, and researchers to advance continuity standards worldwide.
Become a Founding Member
Help shape the future of digital estate continuity. Founding Circle members receive early access to standards updates, influence working groups, and support DEPI’s global mission.
A New Standard for a Digital World
DEPI exists to ensure a safer, more predictable digital future — for individuals, families, institutions, and the global ecosystem.
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