Technology can help educate people about human rights: envoy

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/01/31
By: Joseph Yeh

Taipei, Jan. 31 (CNA) The latest technology can be used to encourage more people to

French Human Rights Ambassador François Croquette

learn about human rights, visiting French Human Rights Ambassador François Croquette said Thursday.

Moderating a panel discussion session at the 2019 Taipei “Night of Ideas (La Nuit des idées),” Croquette asked participants to brainstorm and come up with new ideas that better promote human rights education in the digital age.

Many participants mentioned the use of Virtual Reality (VR) in human rights museums around the world, allowing visitors to experience the suffering of people living under totalitarian regimes.

In response, the French envoy said he visited Taiwan’s National Human Rights Museum on Wednesday where he used the VR technology that enables visitors to experience White Terror.    [FULL  STORY]

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