Table of contents Go Green Pakistan Introduction Current Status Pakistan Revolution Green Join Team Public Reaction Official Go Green Pakistan Website FaceBook Fan Page TV Media Coverage Farhan Masood Independence Day Resolution Go Green on other websites and Blogs

Go Green Pakistan Introduction

Go Green Pakistan is a cyberspace movement, started on 23 July, 2009 for the Independence Day Celebrations on 14th August. It took place at Twitter and Facebook, and turned green more than 10,000 social media profiles for the celebrations of Pakistan's Independence Day. Go Green movement is also referred as Green Karo, was started by Farhan Masood an IT geek and entrepreneur from Lahore. The movement was started when Farhan turned himself green and also offered others to send him photos to be turned Green. In result many sent photos to Farhan, and became green. Farhan and his twitter friends worked together to convert thousands of pictures into green containing the Pakistani Flag.

Current Status

Currently more than 16,000 social media profiles are converted to Pakistani flag.

Pakistan Revolution

The revolution in Pakistan is on its way, IT is playing a big role in this revolution as we see a large number of Pakistani Online Users, Blogs, and Websites coming online from Pakistan. Go Green Movement is also a significant sign of this revolution taking place in the social media of Internet.

Green Join Team

On ((Farhan Masood)'s call JOIN Team contributed a bit in converting some profiles green.

Public Reaction

Pakistanis enjoyed turning green and seeing this whole movement in action. Only a few were skeptical about going green while most of the people wanted to go green with this movement. Even many of our global friends delightfully participated in the campaign by converting green themselves.

Official Go Green Pakistan Website

Go Green Pakistan website is live online by Farhan Masood and his team. The website gives information about the mission, latest news and events.

FaceBook Fan Page

TV Media Coverage

Geo TV was the first one to give coverage to the Go Green Pakistan movement and recognized the efforts made by Pakistani Online Community.

We have in this video @farhanmasood and @taalz

Dawn News invited two Pakistani bloggers and Tweeps on the breakfast show, hosted by Naveen Naqvi who herself is a twitter user. They talked about the Go Green movement along with other issues Pakistanies are dealing with.

We have in this video @naveenaqvi (host), @sanasaleem (guest) and @faisalkapadia (guest).

Farhan Masood Independence Day Resolution

Farhan Masood 's resolution is to stay Green for the whole year and just not forget Pakistan after the independence day season. A very well resolution by Farhan, the passion and dedication must continue forever.

Go Green on other websites and Blogs

Following are some of the blogs wrote about Go Green Pakistan movement.
Go Green Facebook Page
Go Green and Pakiology made it to Geo TV
Pakistaniat
GlobalVoices Go Green Movement
Teeth Maestro Go Green Pakistan
Farhan Masood Making Whole Universe Go Green
Talal Masood Blog