Mark Zuckerberg Changes His Profile Pic To Indian Tricolor, Supports Digital India Campaign

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to be eagerly awaiting his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In anticipation, he has changed his FB profile photo to the Indian tricolour to show his support for India’s digital future and connectivity.

“I changed my profile picture to support Digital India, the Indian government’s effort to connect rural communities to the internet and give people access to more services online. Looking forward to discussing this with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Facebook today,” Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Facebook.

I changed my profile picture to support Digital India, the Indian government’s effort to connect rural communities to…

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday, September 27, 2015

Modi seems to be just as excited about the meeting. He returned the favour.

Thanks Mark Zuckerberg for the support. I changed my DP in support of the efforts towards a Digital India. Your too can change your DP at fb.com/supportdigitalindia

Posted by Narendra Modi on Sunday, September 27, 2015

One of the key projects of the Modi Government, digital India is an initiative to integrate the citizens of India with all government departments. The initiative reduces people’s dependency on paperwork and makes the process electronically enabled. One of the key features is the plan to connect rural India with high speed Internet connectivity.

Read more about Digital India Initiative right here .

Modi has already kicked-off meetings in California and has met Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. But everyone’s waiting to hear about his meeting with Zuckerberg.

And if you too wish to change your profile photo to the tricolour, you can do it here .