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Digital Persona

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Digital Persona (DP) is the electronic representation, an information model, of an individual's public personality based on and maintained by transactions or secondary information, and is intended for use as a proxy for the individual. The term was created and defined first by Clarke(1). Another mention of a related concept is in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (2). He refers to the term Avatar, a Sanskrit word meaning incarnate.