The Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) has lifted the two-year ban imposed on the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS). The ban, placed in February 2023 due to BASIS’s failure to send representatives to the 2022 APICTA event in Pakistan, was formally removed during the APICTA conference in Brunei on Saturday.
The ban was lifted following sustained efforts by BASIS’s former presidents, Syed Almas Kabir and Russel T Ahmed. The two worked with APICTA’s executive committee and submitted formal appeals to resolve the issue. Their efforts earned them invitations to the APICTA ExCo meeting, where the decision to lift the ban was finalized, although the formal announcement is yet to be made.
Despite the ban, three Bangladeshi IT firms—Socian AI, IT Limited, Smart Trend Digital, and ISORA Solutions Limited—participated in this year’s APICTA awards. Synesis IT emerged as the champion in the Digital Government category under Public Sector and Government Services, as confirmed by Smart Trend Digital’s founder Mun Rajib.
Synesis IT’s Chief Business Officer Abu Sayeed Mohammad Nurur Nabi, Deputy General Manager Moinul Islam, and Assistant Manager Zunaid Hossain received the recognition at the event.
APICTA, the region’s largest ICT alliance, hosts annual awards to acknowledge promising initiatives, software solutions, and IT-based services, with BASIS as one of its members.
