Mark Zuckerberg changes profile photo to support Digital India initiative, Modi thanks him

Ahead of the townhall with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his profile photo on Facebook to show his support for Digital India initiative, and it is going viral. Pitching his pet Digital India initiative with the titans of the IT world, Prime Minister Modi on Sunday promised to make governance more accountable and transparent while assuring data privacy and security. Speaking before a gathering of Silicon Valley CEOs, Modi announced plans to create more public WiFi spots including at 500 railway stations across India and an aggressive expansion of the National Optical Fibre Network to take broadband to 600,000 villages. “As our economy and our lives get more wired, we are also giving the highest importance to data privacy and security, intellectual property rights and cyber security,” he said at a dinner interaction attended among others by Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayan, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Qualcomm executive chairman Paul Jacobs and Google CEO Sunder Pichai. Zuckerberg said that he appreciated India’s efforts to connect rural areas through technology. Here’s what he said:

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

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Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on  Sunday, 27 September 2015

The photo got thousands of shares and likes within minutes of being shared. Modi, in turn thanked him for the show of support:

Thanks Mark Zuckerberg for the support. I change 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, 27 September 2015