Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS)

BASIS (বেসিস) Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services is the national trade body for Software & IT Enabled Service industry of Bangladesh. Established in 1997, the association has been working at developing software & IT service industry in the country. BASIS started its journey with only 17 charter members. Today the membership stands at more than 450. Members of BASIS account for the lion share of the total software & IT services revenue of the country.

Description

Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) is the national trade body for Software & IT Enabled Service industry of Bangladesh, establishedBASIS Established in 1997, the association has been working with a vision of developing vibrant software & IT service industry in the country. BASIS started its journey with only 17 charter members. Today the membership stands at more than 450. Members of BASIS account for the lion share of the total software & IT services revenue of the country.

• Domestic market development: By by creating awareness among potential IT users from both private and public sectors, establishing market places for IT solutions and ensuring level playing field for local software and ITE service industry.
• International market development: Through networking and business linkage events as well as brand promotion of the industry at international level.
• Capacity building of the member: Companies as well as the industry as a whole through management/entrepreneurship development initiatives, technology training and resource sharing.
• Member service development: And delivery in different operational and business support areas like financing, tax, export/import, remittance, foreign visit, contract & legal issues, IPR etc.
• Advocacy for business: Advocacy for business friendly and enabling government policies for the development of software and IT enabled service industry.
• Social contribution: As responsible citizen group, towards the long term national vision of becoming a technology driven knowledge economy, particularly through engaging with the young generation for motivating and guiding them for becoming future technology leaders. BASIS has already gained modest success in attaining the above mentioned goals. For domestic market creation, BASIS has wide range of programs and activities. Every year BASIS organizes BASIS SOFTEXPO, the biggest software and ITES exposition in the country. During the recent years, SOFTEXPO has become the yearly mega market place where software & IT service companies in the country project their products and services to potential IT users, both at corporate/organizational and individual level. BASIS periodically publishes software and IT service catalog /directory for promoting local solution providers to the potential business clients. For development of market in government sector BASIS has been working closely with different concerned Ministries and agencies of government. BASIS is trying to play a catalyst role so that its members can effectively provide support and technical guidance to different government initiatives taken in line with the Digital Bangladesh vision of current government. Along with these initiatives of market development, BASIS also provides IT procurement advisory services to both public and private sector clients.

Organization structure and governance

BASIS is run by a nine member Board of Directors (elected by direct voting of the members for a two-year term). The Board of Directors has the overall responsibility for running the affairs of BASIS and setting policy guidelines for its secretariat. Aside from the elected board of directors, there are ten Standing Committees whose members are experts in relevant areas.

BASIS institute of technology and management

BITM (BASIS Institute of Technology and Management) is going to be set up with the vision of establishing a world class institute which would support the IT industry of Bangladesh by producing world class professionals. The project has the following objectives:

• To ensure steady supply of technical and managerial resources for the growing and evolving software and ITES industry in Bangladesh.
• To benchmark (by skill assessment) the quality of IT graduates of different institutes and professionals working in different organizations in the country.
• To identify and assemble global best practices in the context of operational and management issues of technological system development and deployment.
• To initiate and coordinate research and development activities with respect to developing sustainable and appropriate localized technology solution, mainly in the focused area of e-service delivery by government and private enterprises.

BITM arranged a seminar on “Cloud Computing and Development of Cloud based Application” on Saturday, the 29th September 2012 at BASIS Conference Room. Founder and CEO of Horoppa Labs/Systems deliver his speech and presentation as key resource person. It may be mentioned here that, Horoppa Labs/ Systems one of the BASIS member companies, the only Amazon Web Services and Google Apps partner in the country and is pioneering cloud adoption in Bangladesh.

More projects

1. ICT Incubator
2. BITMAP (supported by Danish Embassy)
3. BASIS-A2I Joint Project for national portal framework development
4. NTFII Project (supported by CBI, Netherlands Government and implemented jointly with ITC, UN and DCCI)

BASIS Softexpo

BASIS has been organizing its annual mega event BASIS SOFTEXPO since 2003. Over recent years, SOFTEXPO has become Bangladesh's biggest showcase for software products, IT enabled services (ITES) and ICT system solutions. For business organizations ranging from large conglomerates to SMEs, government departments & agencies, non profit & development organizations as well as individual buyers, SOFTEXPO is the show to and what technologies andproducts are contemporary and demonstrate the exciting things that are forthcoming. There are some events & activities organized by BASIS and Co-Organized by Ministry of ICT, Bangladesh

Events & Activities

1. IT Innovation Search Program.
2. Freelancer Award: BASIS awarding the top freelancers who have been continuously upholding Bangladesh's image in the Global IT Space and at the same time contribution socially by earning foreign exchange and creation employment.
3. Code Warriors' Challenge.
4. IT Job Fair.
5. Seminar & Round Table.
6. Technical Session.
7. Business Meet & Match.
8. International Matchmaking

See also

• Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka
• Daffodil Institute of Information Technology
• Bangladesh institute of information technology (BIIT)
• List of institutes in Bangladesh

External links

• BASIS webpage
• BASIS Softexpo
• Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

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