Effect of Internet } Physical to digital

Internet has changed the way we live and manage our information. Personal information or professional network, everything is digital. Planned Departure provides an electronic vault to store your digital assets so that you can be in-charge and manage your digital assets.

Conversation of Friends } In the heaven

Life is uncertain, but it is possible to plan your final journey and ensure that critical information is transferred to family and friends. Peace is in the knowledge that people you love will not suffer, if something happens to you.

Nuclear families } Information flow in digital age

Nuclear families and digitization makes email account an extremely important digital asset. Email accounts are gateway for utility services, personal information and professional network. Unfortunately, what happens to this important digital asset after user's death is not decided by user. Planned departure lets you decide whether email accounts should be transferred, locked or deleted after your death.

Digital Assets } Sentiments & Memories

Gone are the days when your pictures were in physical album and your personal letters in a trunk. Most of the information these days is digital. Pictures are stored in picasa or flickr and personal communication is in email or other social network. Planned Departure lets you decide how pictures, emails and other things close to your heart should be handled the way you want after you pass away.

Internet } Some interesting facts

Worldwide Internet traffic grew 62% in 2010. The regions experiencing the fastest growth year over year were Eastern Europe and India/South Asia, where average traffic growth exceeded 100%, and the Middle East, where traffic rose just under 100%

TeleGeography’s Global Internet Geography, October 2010

E-commerce or online retailing is one of the fastest growing markets in Europe. Worth £39,800 million in 2003 it has grown to £127,700 million by 2009.

The Centre for Retail Research 2010,

As of mid 2010, Skype has 124m "connected users", who generated 95bn call minutes in 1st half 2010 of which, 40% were video. Overall Skype has 560m registered users, and 8.1m paying users on average per month (up from 6.6m a year earlier)

ReadWriteWeb August 2010.

As of July 2010, 500 million people worldwide were actively using Facebook, up from 400 million in February 2010. Half of Facebook users log onto it everyday. More than 35 million update their statuses at least once a day. The average user spends 55 minutes per day on Facebook and has 130 friends.

The Facebook Blog, July 2010

Mobile payments through PayPal grew sixfold in 2009, growing globally from £15m in 2008 to £86m in 2009

PayPal, March 2010

Peace } Less than an INR

Ensuring that your digital assets are managed by you and transferred to people you love and care is not expensive. For less than an INR, pence or cents a day, you can ensure that you are in charge of your digital assets even after you pass away.