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Special marking meeting

In September 2019, the China Wills Bank held a "special review meeting" to sort out common mistakes in writing wills.

As of the end of 2019, the China Wills Bank had registered and kept nearly 150,000 wills, of which 178 were made by "post-90s".

Director of Hangzhou First Registration Center of China Will Bank:

"Typos and arbitrary abbreviations are the biggest problems for citizens when copying."

"The lack of understanding of legal knowledge and legal terminology is also a major problem that causes flaws in the content of the will."

"Many people think that whose name is written on the real estate certificate is whose house. In fact, as long as the house after marriage is the joint property of the husband and wife."

"According to statistics, typos, logical errors, unclear property orientation, and incomplete property share handling are the most common mistakes made by testators in writing a will."

The General Conference,

Considering that the disappearance of heritage in whatever form constitutes an impoverishment of the heritage of all nations,

Recalling that the Constitution of UNESCO provides that the Organization will maintain, increase and diffuse knowledge, by assuring the conservation and protection of the world’s inheritance of books, works of art and monuments of history and science, that its “Information for All” Programme provides a platform for discussions and action on information policies and the safeguarding of recorded knowledge, and that its “Memory of the World” Programme aims to ensure the preservation and universal accessibility of the world’s documentary heritage,

Recognizing that such resources of information and creative expression are increasingly produced, distributed, accessed and maintained in digital form, creating a new legacy – the digital heritage,

Aware that access to this heritage will offer broadened opportunities for creation, communication and sharing of knowledge among all peoples,

Understanding that this digital heritage is at risk of being lost and that its preservation for the benefit of present and future generations is an urgent issue of worldwide concern,

Proclaims the following principles and adopts the present Charter.

The digital heritage as a common heritage

https://en.unesco.org/

http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=17721&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

SCOPE

The digital heritage consists of unique resources of human knowledge and expression. It embraces cultural, educational, scientific and administrative resources, as well as technical, legal, medical and other kinds of information created digitally, or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources. Where resources are “born digital”, there is no other format but the digital object.

Digital materials include texts, databases, still and moving images, audio, graphics, software and web pages, among a wide and growing range of formats. They are frequently ephemeral, and require purposeful production, maintenance and management to be retained.