[2] Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) was established in 1998.

[3] In June 2016, Mustafa Jabar was elected president of BASIS after his Digital Brigade Panel won seven of the nine directorships.

[6] In April 2018, BASIS started the Commonwealth-SheTrades initiative, with funding from the UK Department for International Development.

[8] According to Al Jazeera in 2018, BASIS is "the biggest umbrella organization representing the country's IT sector.

[10] In August 2018, BASIS publicly implored RAJUK to allow BASIS members operating software companies out of commercial zones to continue operating, noting that the commercial zones then open did not allow such companies to remain open all day.